Tour Tidbit du Jour - 7/6/2012

Peter Sagan, who won his third stage today in the group sprint at Metz, has a few nicknames given him by his Liquigas-Cannondale teammates: Terminator, Rambo, and Cannibal. But there is really only one "Cannibal" in the sport of cycling, and that is the legendary Eddy Merckx, who in his first Tour de France in 1969 won the yellow jersey, the green jersey, and the polka-dot jersey all at the same Tour, and remains the only rider to do so in Tour history. So, instead of Cannibal, the Liquigas bike mechanics decided on another name after Sagan won his first stage: Tourminator.

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