PARIS: It is 30 years since a Frenchman won the Tour de France but in Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet, home hopes are steadily growing.
It was 1985 when Bernard Hinault won his fifth Tour title as Frenchmen claimed nine out of 11 Tours since Belgian great Eddy Merckx stormed to the last of his five crowns in 1974.
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