Laurent fignon autobiography template
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By James Witherell, author of Bicycle History
James Witherell (who has forgotten more about bicycle history than I ever knew) has been kind enough to send me a biography of Laurent Fignon, who passed away in August, 2010. Once someone said to Fignon, "Ah, I remember you: you're the guy who lost the Tour by eight seconds." Fignon replied, "No monsieur, I'm the guy who won it twice."
Laurent Fignon winning the final time trial in the 1983 Tour de France
If the reader has any interest in cycling history, James Witherell's "Bicycle History" is a terrific bicycle mini-encyclopedia. It's available both as a paperback and as a Kindle ebook. Just click on the Amazon link on the right.
Laurent Fignon photo gallery
Laurent Fignon was born in Paris on August 12, 1960. He grew up about 20 miles away in Tournan-en-Brie at a time before it was just another bedroom community near the City of Light, and still had some woods in which the youngster and his mates could play out their small adventures.
He wore his first pair of glasses at age six, but never considered bicycle racing until he was fifteen. Fignon’s initial races proved successful, and he joined the local club, La Pédale of Combs-la-Ville, in 1976.
Within a couple of years, the young Fi
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Yellow Jersey Press Laurent Fignon - We were young and carefree
I'd heard only good things about Laurent Fignon's autobiography - We were young and carefree - and it doesn't disappoint. Fignon's answer to the eternal question 'Are you the bloke who lost the Tour by 8 seconds?' was always 'No. I'm the guy who won it twice.'
Fignon was one of the last of the attacking generation - those that rode the whole season and tried to specialise in it all. He won his first Tour de France in 1983 at the age of 22 and narrowly lost the Giro in 1984. Cue plenty of entertaining shenanigans about vinegar being thrown at him by spectators, helicopters ruining his time trial and the whole Italian section of the peloton - regardless of teams - ganging up to deny him his victory.
Fignon won the tour De France again in 1984 by over 10 minutes, winning 5 stages himself and with his Renault team securing 10 stages in all - which puts Team Sky in perspective. He won the Milan San Remo twice and came back to finally vanquish the dastardly Italian nation by winning the Giro in 1989. His career spanned the end of Hinault's reign, the beginning of the specialist event riders like Le Mond and then on into the nightmare of serious doping in the early 1990's.
It's a superb translation from the French
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when we were young stand for carefree. laurent fignon xanthous jersey thrust. 287pp volume £12.99
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