Looks at the life of the Belgian cyclist who amassed 445 victories during his racing career.

Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been. Throughout his professional career Mer

'The whole point of a race is to find a winner... I chose to race, so I chose to win.' For 14 years between 1965 and 1978, cyclist Edouard Louis Joseph Merckx s

Eddy Merckx is to cycing what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been. Throughout his professional career Merc

In 1980, there were exactly four professional bike racers in America. Six years later, an American cycling team would wear the coveted yellow jersey of the Tour