Jacques Anquetil (1934-1987) was the first runner to win the Tour de France on five occasions. In the early 1950s, Monsieur Crono made little of France's achievements to the best biker at the time, Louison Bobet. Donostiarra Raúl Pérez Martínez talks about the struggle between the two, as well as its relationship with Raymond Poulidor, a corridor known as the 'number two' of eternity. You can't talk about one without mentioning the other. Enemy on the road, friend on the battlefield, Anquetil, moribund, went to Poulidor when he went to visit him at the hospital: “When you leave this world, you follow me.” On

November 18, it marks the 25th anniversary of Anquetil's death, and on the occasion of that anniversary, Pérez has published his biography in Basque, from the youth of the French cyclist to the post-retirement. Among them, the 1969 Vuelta al País Vasco, which was the last highly prestigious race won by Anquetil. His relationship with enemies, coaches and amateurs, his relationship with doping – yes, which at that time also seemed like a pretty midwife – his parents and the writings of journalists are some of the issues that Pérez brings. One of them is the motto “France has its Coppi”, which he used to indicate that he had a cyclist similar to the great italiano.El prologue of the book was written by the former cyclist and speaker of EITB Txomin Perurena, and the epilogue has written it by errenteriarra Luis Otaño, who ran

in tropel with Anquetil.