Concerning Flanders '77, the 300k BF that Maertens talked about were not meant to be all for him but half of it was to be shared between his two teammates and close friends Demeyer and Pollentier. Maertens claims that De Vlaeminck went to Nieuwpoort on a rainy day in a hotel close to where Pollentier's ex wife used to live and brought 150k BF that Maertens would have given to Pollentier and Demeyer. And he, of course, claimed he never got his share of the deal. De Vlaeminck claims he did not bring anything and says we can always ask Pollentier if he received anything, he would answer no.
Maertens was actually most of all screwed over by race director Fabri who announced him towards the end of the race that he reconsidered his decision to disqualify him but Maertens was worn out and could not sprint. He and W. Planckaert were eventually disqualified for doping. So now De Vlaeminck proudly says he was the only clean rider on the podium. But he also says he was never proud of the way he rode that day.
About the contract for the next races, he admitted that when Maertens attacked he used Godefroot to chase him because he couldn't morally do it himself. But I think De Vlaeminck considered the contract to be fulfilled after the Flèche when Maertens attacked him while they were both in front. Maertens tested positive again for stimul.
About the Worlds '73, I'm probably the only person in the World to claim Gimondi simply was the strongest.
I appreciated the story about this fishmonger Marc Reybrouck who gave Maertens his new bike, insulted De Vlaeminck during the podium ceremony. He was also Eddy Planckaert's fish delivery man and was present on the velodrome at Eddy's victory in Roubaix. He told him he won with this gap (showing a space of about 50cm, with his arms while Eddy won by 2mm over Bauer).
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Other things:
Beheyt in Worlds 1973
LeMond in France 1989 (triathlete handlebar was banned, he should have been disqualified)
Bobet in Giro 1957: taking advantage of Gaul's sanitary stop.
Anquetil in Paris-Nice 1966
Moser's Hour record (but finally reconsidered 16 years later)
Paris-Roubaix 1936: Lapebie declared winner while photos showed Romain Maes crossing the line 1st (same happened earlier with Ronsse's win over Curtel, and a Ronsse defeat, I think)
Raas in Worlds 1979: Priem pushes in Cauberg
Liège Bastogne Liège 1970: Merckx claims Eric De Vlaeminck cut in front of him in the tunnel before entering the velodrome and whistled to his brother to signal he could attack. But Eddy had time to catch him I think and was beaten by Verbeeck in the sprint.
Giri 1948, 1966,1967: Magni, Motta and then every Italian (resp.) took advantage pushes. And Gimondi got a tow from the Rai car in 1967, according to Geminiani.
France 1985: LeMond was heading to a possible victory but Tapie's order was win for Hinault (OK Hinault got punched by Phil Anderson)
France 1965 (Montpellier): Reybrouck got orders from Driessens to suck Van Looy's wheel
Lombardy 1958: De Bruyne sucked Van Looy's wheel to let the chasing group come back while a second place could assure him of Desgrange Colombo (same for Roche Liège 1987). De Bruyne also made arrangement in Worlds 1956 with Van Steenbergen against Van Looy. Van Looy was in front with Janssens who never left his wheel.
Giro 1969: The Savona case.
Verbeeck in Ghent Wevelgem 1972. Gimondi sprinted to victory but Frans' manoeuvre benefitted Swerts
Van Looy in Flanders 1968. Rode negatively against Merckx, which benefitted Godefroot.
Anquetil in Bordeaux-Paris 1965.
Eric De Vlaeminck in Cyclocross Worlds 1973 (He fell and instinctively put his bike horizontally in order to get the others to fall as well)
Cyclocross Worlds 1984 Liboton got punched by a Dutch spectator and then never left Stamsnijder's wheel to win in the sprint.
France 1975: punch lost Merckx the Tour.
France 1977: van Impe hit by press car on the way to L'Alpe
Pollentier in Flanders 1979: never left Godefroot's and Braun's wheels cos' Maertens was behind but unscrupulously attacked in the finale, leading Godefroot to make an arrangement with Braun's DS.
Suspicion has also been raised about Moser's apparently (too?) easy win in Worlds 1977, about Vanderaerden's win in Paris Roubaix '87 (in the book
De Flandrien, he just said he convinced the other guys to ride cos' Kelly and Van Hooydonck were chasing and then they wouldn't have prizes, which was poker cos' he didn't know it).
OK I'll stop here. But all this is just futility with regard to the big cheating of the EPO (etc..) dopers of 90's and beyond.
