Pierre Chany (16 December 1922 – 18 June 1996) was a French cycling journalist. He covered the Tour de France 49 times and was for a long time the main...

compulsory national service in 1955 that he first travelled in a train. Pierre Chany, a French reporter who followed 49 Tours de France, drew the comparison...

successes which would be exceeded only by Eddy Merckx. The veteran writer Pierre Chany said that from 1946 to 1954 Coppi was never once recaught once he had...

ISBN 1-892495-26-0 Chany, Pierre (1986), La Fabuleuse Histoire du Tour de France, La Martinière, France, pp 54—55 Chany, Pierre (1986), La Fabuleuse...

of those divisions is shown in a story, perhaps apocryphal, told by Pierre Chany, who was close to Anquetil: The Tour de France has the major fault of...

existed, it has always existed", said the French reporter and author, Pierre Chany, who followed 49 Tours before his death in 1996. The exhaustion of six-day...

Michael at one or more Chain Races but against him. The French historian Pierre Chany says Warburton drugged Michael to make him lose. Michael had drawn the...

Marseillaise [the French national anthem] abroad?" The veteran reporter Pierre Chany said: "Jacques had the strength - for which he was always criticised...

French expression, "one of the most beautiful pens" of sports writing. Pierre Chany a contemporary, called him "The best sporting journalist of his generation...

Ollivier said Induráin's ride wasn't without effort but another historian, Pierre Chany, said it lacked audacity and that Induráin never "did anything unprovoked...