Impsport King Of The Mountains - Mont Ventoux Cycling Jersey

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The Impsport 'King of the Mountains' Jersey Collection features some of the most iconic summits featured in the Grand Tours. Some say Mont Ventoux is the hardest of all the mythical Tour de France climbs and rightly so. The mountain achieved worldwide notoriety when it claimed the life of the great English cyclist Tom Simpson, who died there on July 13th 1967. There is a memorial to Tom near the summit which has become a shrine to fans of cycling, who often leave small tokens of remembrance. In 1970 Eddy Merckx rode himself to the brink of collapse while winning the stage. He received oxygen, recovered, and won the Tour de France. This Epic climb featured in the 2013 Tour de France emphatically won by Chris Froome.