Roger Pingeon, the winner of the 1967 Tour de France and 1969 Vuelta a Espana, has died at the age of 76.
He is the third winner of the Tour de France to have died in the past three months.
In December, 1950 champion Ferdinand Kübler from Switzerland passed away aged 97.
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He was succeeded as the oldest surviving Tour de France winner by France’s Roger Walkowiak, who died aged 89 in February.
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From 1966 until 1972, Pingeon rode for the Peugeot-BP Michelin team, where he was a team mate of the late Tommy Simpson.
The pair were rivals, however, at the 1967 edition of the Tour de France, when organisers reintroduced national teams.
In that race 50 years ago, Pingeon represented France, while Simpson, who collapsed and died on the slopes of Mont Ventoux on Stage 13, was riding for the Great Britain team.
Besides his Tour de France victory, Pingeon also topped the General Classification at the Vuelta a Espana in 1969.
Of the 59 men to have won the General Classifiction of the Tour de France, 21 are still alive – currently, the oldest surviving champion is Spanish rider Federico Bahamontes, winner in 1959 and now aged 88.
0/10. Nice try though.
"However, at the time of writing the recall only applies to the USA and Canada, where 760,000 cranks were sold".... just checked Shimano's...
I'm not so sure. Something seems to turn perfectly reasonable humans into raving lunatics when they get behind the steering wheel.
Being a fellow cyclist, being hardcore before it was cool. A cycling commuter back to the 70s.
A voice of sanity....
Driver of BMW smashes into Daventry building before running off https://www.northantslive.news/news/northamptonshire-news/driver-bmw-sma...
Good! They're turning on their spiritual siblings now! Perhaps they'll drive themselves extinct
Chapeau (or is it Fedora, or RHEL?)! Best of the day - I bet you'd have received more but for 504 Gateway Timeout...
It is a sad day for this country when you can't peer into another man's castle. I blame the EU.
Hey! He understands. Just because he's the richest PM ever doesn't mean he doesn't understand what it's like to be poor.