Being on the other side of the Cheddar Cheese curtain, I get to see some good documentaries about the last Frenchman to win the tour.
It's hard to resume a lot, but suffice to say, decisions back then and with media fuss, and with time, and with retrospective, there is much more a balanced view compared to in the film "Slaying the Badger". As a youth, I still rate this an epic period. It's still the man in the middle who made it happen, even if you love or loath him.
I've said it before, Bernard Tapie RIP for modernising bike racing out of the stagnation and making it global. When all said and done, what
an epic time and no one could make the stories up from essentially rags and tatters to owning it all.