Tom Simpson

Making history: Tom Simpson became the first British rider to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France after stage 12 in 1962 from Pau to St Gaudens.

Tom Simpson became the first British rider to win Paris-Nice in 1967, and was the only Brit to have done so until Bradley Wiggins’s victory in his golden season in 2012.

It was later in the 1967 season that Tommy Simpson died. He collapsed on the ascent of Mont Ventoux during stage 13 of the Tour de France and could not be resuscitated.

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