Laurent Fignon obituary
French cycling champion best known for his epic defeat in the 1989 Tour de France Laurent Fignon, who has died of cancer aged 50, won the Tour de France twice, but was also widely celebrated for losing it in the narrowest defeat in Tour history. He was a charismatic cycling champion with trenchant views on his sport, the last Frenchman who seemed capable of living up to national expectations in ...
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