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Robert Millar is the reason I got interested in cycling. In your article you say that Millar's greatest success was not broadcast here by any T.V. channel this is not true. ITV's World of Sport did a half hour interview with Robert before the 1984 Tour, this is where I first saw him and decided to watch the following three weeks of coverage they were to give to the Tour (half an hour each). This resulted with the fourth place and King of The Mountains title you mention. I was hooked and met Robert on a few occasions later following cycling here and at the Tour de France where I gained a number of autographs and his race number and bidon (water bottle).
Sounds sad but I had hero worshiped this guy since 1984 and to gain these pieces of memorabilia to me was fantastic and they were precious. You have to remember he rode his last Tour in 1993 so it was a while ago and I was much younger! I do find it sad that he seems to have just dissappeared, the last I heard he was living in or near Northampton but this must have been almost ten years ago. By the way I am English supporting a Scot and have never claimed him as British he was and still is my favourite cyclist and luckily for me at my first Tour de France I was photographed by Graham Watson (top cycling photographer) in the crowd on Alpe d'Huez as Robert Millar ascended the mountain a picture I now own myself.
Posted by: Spencer Owen on 2006-02-08 10:27:11
Thanks for the correction about tour coverage, I thought it only began with Channel 4. I wish I was lucky enough to meet Millar, the closest I got was some pictures at the end of a stage in Glasgow.
Posted by: Gordon Cairns on 2006-03-01 10:59:02
Robert Millar is the reason I got interested in cycling. In your article you say that Millar's greatest success was not broadcast here by any T.V. channel this is not true. ITV's World of Sport did a half hour interview with Robert before the 1984 Tour, this is where I first saw him and decided to watch the following three weeks of coverage they were to give to the Tour (half an hour each). This resulted with the fourth place and King of The Mountains title you mention. I was hooked and met Robert on a few occasions later following cycling here and at the Tour de France where I gained a number of autographs and his race number and bidon (water bottle).
Sounds sad but I had hero worshiped this guy since 1984 and to gain these pieces of memorabilia to me was fantastic and they were precious. You have to remember he rode his last Tour in 1993 so it was a while ago and I was much younger! I do find it sad that he seems to have just dissappeared, the last I heard he was living in or near Northampton but this must have been almost ten years ago. By the way I am English supporting a Scot and have never claimed him as British he was and still is my favourite cyclist and luckily for me at my first Tour de France I was photographed by Graham Watson (top cycling photographer) in the crowd on Alpe d'Huez as Robert Millar ascended the mountain a picture I now own myself.
Posted by: Spencer Owen on 2006-02-08 10:27:11