Scandals
Yes, I take your point on all fronts and there clearly are some interesting folk on the professional circuit. Your observations surrounding Anquetil’s antics are indeed correct, much of my knowledge is via old footage, photos and personal research… However, there was a scandal in my own family. Some twenty three years back we had a young Austrian Au Pair and legend has it she fell for a colleague of my father’s. The colleague in question was a very, very good time trialist who often rode his ancient Hetchins to work and back and thought nothing of a fast-fifty afterward.
Looking 35 but with a chronological age of 60, he took her to dinner…It was a while ago but if memory serves me correctly, they didn’t elope- his wife was a faster time trialist than he…..