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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

best riders were rumoured to control the race. The French journalist Pierre Chany wrote: There was a lot of talk about the relative honesty of the results...

by cars in 1897, 1898 and 1899. So was Paris–Roubaix. The historian Pierre Chany said: "Cars made only a brief appearance in Paris–Roubaix. On the roads...

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

by a spectator, fought back but lost the lead and never regained it. Pierre Chany wrote: Those who were there will be slow to forget Bernard Thévenet's...

(French) Coureur Cycliste: Un Homme et son Métier by Eddy Merckx and Pierre Chany in 1974, 248 p. (French) ISBN 9782221231975 Ma Chasse aux Maillots Rose...

12 July 2000 Chany, Pierre (1997), La Fabuleuse Histoire du Tour de France, La Martinière, France, ISBN 978-2-7324-2353-1 Chany, Pierre (1997), La Fabuleuse...

publishing empire. Among L'Équipe's most respected writers have been Pierre Chany (1922–1996), Antoine Blondin (1922–1991) and Gabriel Hanot (1899–1968)...

of that on the eve of Simpson's death on 13 July 1967. The historian Pierre Chany wrote: Three kilometres from the summit, in a landscape of stone, where...

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...

Provence") before finishing in Carpentras. At dawn, Tour doctor Pierre Dumas met journalist Pierre Chany near his hotel. Dumas noted the warm temperature: "If the...

recruit reported for duties with his new team in France, said the writer Pierre Chany, with a skin tanned like an old leather saddle and creases to his face...

Croatian philosopher. Gino Bramieri, 67, Italian actor, pancreatic cancer. Pierre Chany, 73, French cycling journalist. Erika Dannhoff, 86, German actress. Miriam...

Provence") before finishing in Carpentras. At dawn, Tour doctor Pierre Dumas met journalist Pierre Chany near his hotel. Dumas noted the warm temperature, "If the...

term to tease the young rider. Le Guilloux used it once in front of Pierre Chany, a writer for L'Équipe, and the name stuck. According to Hinault himself...

dimanche 5 mai 1974 : en page 2, résultats de l'étape et reportage de Pierre Chany intitulé Delisle frappe, Martinez aussi ! "Martin Martinez". ProCyclingStats...

story is repeated by Pascal Sergent, the historian of the race, and by Pierre Chany, historian of the sport in general. Sergent goes as far as saying that...

have pedaled at 170 to 185 revolutions a minute. The cycling journalist Pierre Chany says that at the least he would have ridden at 160rpm. The historian...

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...

Goddet covered 53 but from 1936 to 1986 he was also the race organiser. Pierre Chany would have been the first journalist to 50 Tours de France had he not...

by Desgrange was 854,000, achieved during the 1933 Tour. The reporter Pierre Chany wrote: "He knew the imperfections of his work, which was still in progress...

fountain and back – 1,200 metres on a gravel path. The French historian Pierre Chany wrote: In Paris, 'pedalling machines' proliferated, characterised by...

"Everything's wrong; we'll have to start all over again." The best the historian Pierre Chany could say of him was that while he often boasted of what he had done...