• Pierre Chany (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʃani]; 16 December 1922 – 18 June 1996) was a French cycling journalist. He covered the Tour de France 49 times...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • French expression, "one of the most beautiful pens" of sports writing. Pierre Chany a contemporary, called him "The best sporting journalist of his generation...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    originated after the 1954 St. Moritz stage of the Giro d'Italia, when Pierre Chany, a journalist with L'Équipe, wrote: "We would like to know more about...
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  • Marseillaise [the French national anthem] abroad?" The veteran reporter Pierre Chany said: "Jacques had the strength - for which he was always criticised...
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