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The Société du Tour de France and the Motorola team placed a memorial near where he crashed, situated at co-ordinates (42.940, 0 The memorial is a sundial arranged such that the sun's shadow highlights three dates — his birth and death and 2 August, the day he won his Olympic gold medal .
The crash occurred during an attempt to break the Paced Hour Record (meaning how much distance could be achieved within an hour) at the Parc des Princes velodrome. [50] [51] [Note 8] Hubert Sevenich: Track cyclist May 7, 1905 German Empire: Sevenich's sixth stayer competition as a professional was the Grand Prix of Brunswijk on 7 May 1905.
Laurent Fignon of France tested positive for amphetamines at the Grand Prix de la Liberation in Eindhoven on 17 September 1989. [ 103 ] [ 104 ] Bert Oosterbosch of the Netherlands died on 18 August 1989, aged 32, from a heart attack and poor health.
Wilfried Nelissen (Tongeren, 5 May 1970) is a Belgian former road racing cyclist, who specialised as a sprinter.. Nelissen took over 50 professional wins in his career, including a stage of the 1993 Tour de France and the Omloop Het Volk in 1993 and 1994, in addition to two national road race championships.
Marcel Wüst (born 6 August 1967) is a German former road bicycle racer.He won stages in all of the three Grand Tours; twelve stages in the Vuelta a España, one stage in the Tour de France and a stage in the Giro d'Italia.
Virenque finished twice on the podium in the Tour de France (third in 1996 and second in 1997) and won several stages, among them Mont Ventoux in 2002. He is the 18th rider in the Tour to have won stages over 10 years apart; [ n 8 ] he wore the Maillot Jaune for two days in his entire career.
Merckx finished the Tour with eight stage wins and his fifth Tour de France victory, equaling the record of Anquetil. [ 144 ] With his victory in the men's road race at the 1974 UCI Road World Championships and his victories in two Grand Tours, the Giro and Tour , Merckx became the first rider to win the Triple Crown of Cycling .
Jacques Anquetil (pronounced [ʒak ɑ̃k.til]; 8 January 1934 – 18 November 1987) was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.