George Hincapie on the Walker Webcast
After a year of coronavirus delays, the Olympics are finally here and excellence in sports is top of mind. One person who is well-versed in what it takes to not only excel in a sport but support others who do as well is 17-time Tour de France racer and five-time U.S. Olympian George Hincapie.
Hincapie is a cyclist who held a position in the peloton he rode in at the Tour de France that is known as a “domestique.” The role of a domestique is to keep peloton leaders out of the wind and in the front of the pack as much as possible. Hincapie was a domestique for a number of cycling legends, including Alberto Contador, Cadel Evans and Lance Armstrong. He helped these men secure their Tour de France victories and won a stage of the tour himself in 2005, becoming one of only 10 Americans who has ever accomplished such a feat.
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Todayâs Highlight in History:
On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts â two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon â splashed down safely in the Pacific.
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On July 24, 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate by Scottish nobles in favor of her infant son James, who became King of Scotland at the age of one.
In 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
In 1858, Republican senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln formally challenged Democrat Stephen A. Douglas to a series of political debates; the result was seven face-to-face encounters.
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