A selection of historical bicycle race images from the AP Images archive.

Eddie Merckx, world champion from Belgium, Bernard Thevenet, overall leader from France, and his fellow countryman Regis Ovion, from left, pass the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during the last lap of the Tour de France on July 20, 1975. (AP Photo)

Eddy Merckx, Belgian cycling star, won the 51st Tour of Italy, ending in Naples, June 12, 1968. Second place was Vittorio Adorni, left, and third was Felice Gimondi, right, both Italians. Merckx won the 3,898 km race in 108 hours, 42 minutes, 27 seconds. (AP Photo)

Italy's Fausto Coppi, finishing the seventeenth lap of the bicycle race across Italy, on June 5, 1952. The lap was from San Remo to Cuneo a distance of 190 kilometers. The winner was Nino De Filippis. Coppi finished in a group, two minutes, nine seconds after De Filippis. (AP Photo)

Gerrit Peters, left, and Gerrit Schulte, both of the Netherlands, shake hands after winning Berlin’s, Germany, six-day cycle race in the Sports Palace on March 18, 1954. (AP Photo/Heinrich Sanden)

Rik van Steenbergen of Belgium beat Italy's Fausto Coppi by two lengths over the line in winning the 50th annual Paris-Roubaix road race on April 13, 1952. General view of the field bunched on the Ecouen Climb near Paris, France just after the start of the race. (AP Photo/Jean Aubry)

Reg Harris, British world amateur sprint cyclist champion, seen on his racing machine, on the Olympic cycling tracks at Herne Hill Velodrome in London, United Kingdom, on August 4, 1948. (AP Photo/John Rider-Rider)

Swiss cycling legend Ferdi Kuebler wins the Street Cycling World Cup with a sprint finish in Varese, Italy, in 1951. (AP Photo)

Winner of the Tour de France 1954, Louison Bobet from France, right, and Second placed Ferdi Kuebler from Switzerland, left, pose August 1, 1954, in Paris after the final 23th stage from Troyes to Paris, at the Stadion Parc des Princes. (AP Photo)

Fausto Coppi of Italy leads the pack ahead of Jean Robic of France on his way to win the 10th stage of the Tour de France cycling race from Lausanne to L'Alpe d'Huez, July 4, 1952. Coppi later won the Tour de France 1952. (AP Photo)

Winners of the Olympic Games 116-mile road cycling race, at Broadmeadows, near Melbourne, Dec. 7, 1956. Britain's Alan Jackson, left, won the bronze medal, Italy's Erccle Baldini won gold and Arnaud Geyre won silver. (AP Photo)

Louison Bobet of France on his way to win the 21th stage of the Tour de France cycling race, a 72-kilometer individual time trial between Epinal and Nancy, July 30, 1954. Bobet won the Tour de France 1954. (AP Photo)

Popular French singer, composer and actor Gilbert Becaud fires off the classic Six Day bicycle race at velodrome d'Hiver of Paris, France, April 2, 1955. From left to right: Raymond Goussot, Georges Senffleben, Gilbert Becaud holding his pistol and Russel Mockridge of Australia. (AP Photo/Godot)

French cycling ace Jacques Anquetil still wearing the yellow jersey, reaches the 2000 meters high Tourmalet pass in the Pyrenees in Southern France, July 16, 1957, during the 18th stage of the Tour de France. (AP Photo)

Italian cyclist Attilio Pavesias he pedaled down the home stretch, lined by a cheering throng, to win the Olympic 10-kilometer road race near Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 4, 1932. (AP Photo)

Marino Basso of Italy raises his arms as he passes the finish line to win the May 25,1966 eighth leg of the Tour of Italy bicycle race, the 238 kilometer downhill leg from Rocca de Cambio in the Appennines to Naples. (AP Photo)

Contestants in the grueling Tour de France are seen on their way to the Mente Pass in the Pyrenees Mountains, at La Mongie, France, on the 18th leg of the race July 14, 1970. (AP Photo)

Cyclists line up at the start of the 12 hour race at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome in Athens, Greece, the final event of the first modern International Summer Olympic Games on April 12, 1896. Austrian cyclist Adolf Schmal won with 315 km followed by British cyclist Frank Keeping. (AP Photo)

Dutch cyclist and race leader Jan Raas receives help from team mate Jose de Cauwer after suffering a puncture during the Bruxelles to Saint-Armand-Les-Eauxs leg of the Tour de France cycle race on July 1, 1978. (AP Photo/Bodini)

The Olympic road racers are on their way during the individual road race event in Moscow oMonday, July 28, 1980. (AP Photo)

Ireland's Sean Kelly took second place in the fourth leg of the Tour de France race, at the arrival in Le Havre, France on July 5, 1983. (AP Photo)

Frenchman Laurent Fignon in action on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris Sunday, July 24, 1983, during the 22nd and final lap before winning the 70th edition of the Tour de France cyclist race. (AP Photo/Cironneau/Langevin)

Alexis Grewal of Aspen Colorado, right, raises his hands in victory July 29, 1984, as he crosses the finish of the Olympic 190-kilometer road race just ahead of Canada's Steve Bauer, left, in Mission Viejo, California. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

The competitors of the 71st Tour de France cycling race speed down the Champs Elysees during the 23rd and last leg of the Tour de France in Paris, July 22, 1984. French champion Laurent Fignon won the 1984 edition of the famous cycling race. (AP Photo/William Stevens)

Connie Carpenter-Phinney of Boulder, Colo., looks to the crowd having just won the first U.S. gold medal of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games Sunday July 29, 1984, in Los Angeles winning the 79-kilometer Olympic cycling road race. (AP Photo)

Isabelle Gautheron, left, of France, powers past Elisabetta Fanton, center, of Italy and Seiko Hashimoto, right, of Japan, on her way to victory in the Women's Sprint 1/8 finals of the Olympic Cycling competition in Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 21, 1988. (AP Photo/Lionel Cirroneau)

The winners of the 82-kilometer individual road race acknowledge the crowd after accepting their Olympic medals in Seoul, Sept. 26, 1988. From left: Jutta Niehaus of West Germany, silver; Monique Knol of the Netherlands, and Laima Zilporite of the Soviet Union, bronze. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Monique Knol of the Netherlands raises her arms in triumph after winning the women's 82-kilometer Olympic cycling road race in Seoul, South Korea, Monday,September 26, 1988. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz)

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