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Carl0880 said:
Indeed, I've always thought of Vino as similar to Fignon in his style: they both race(d) bikes like they were boxers.
FignonLeGrand said:Ah that's a perfect way to sum him up. Easy to remember the 8 second story but he won it twice by the age of 24. Maybe more could emulate this feat if they had the courage of their convictions, which he certainly did.
He was my hero and the hero for many bespectacled cyclists!
RIP Laurent, Chapeau!
The man killed himself, slowly, but assuredly. We should honor him? Please, out of respect, just let him go and stop the eulogies. Are people so stupid that they can't see the horror in the moment. He was not a man like any other man. He was a cheat!
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I will never cease to be amazed at the lack of humanity some people are capable of. You should be ashamed of yourself.reubenr said:
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1989 - here's the pic from the Assos annual I was given by my boss at Condor Grant Young. Taken by Roberto BettiniDr. Maserati said:
Roubaix
Laurent Fignon
May he rest in Peace
A great champion who In my opinion came 2nd in the greatest Tour de France ever.
He will be missed.
May he rest in Peace
A great champion who In my opinion came 2nd in the greatest Tour de France ever.
He will be missed.
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RIP Laurent.
I came to West-Germany 12 years old when i first heard of him. One of my heroes. Too sad he´s gone, way too early.
I came to West-Germany 12 years old when i first heard of him. One of my heroes. Too sad he´s gone, way too early.
I was a 13 year old kid who fell in love with a celeste Bianchi in the bike store window and after working all summer for my grandfather, got to buy it in 1982. So as I started to ride and to follow European cycling, Laurent Fignon was one whom I really admired. He just looked so good on the bike. A frenchman on french roads, the flowing hair, the glasses! Such style, and so fast.
50 years is of course much too short, but what a 50 years! Well lived. Thank you professor.
50 years is of course much too short, but what a 50 years! Well lived. Thank you professor.
Dr. Maserati
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ultimobici said:1989 - here's the pic from the Assos annual I was given by my boss at Condor Grant Young. Taken by Roberto Bettini
Plus a few more to illustrate how great champions used to ride a full season..........
<snipped for brevity>
M Fignon, you rode with style and panache. Thank you for all those memories. RIP et salut!
Great foto!!
But he also won MSR in 1988 - there is a video here.
I also remember him winning a stage in the Giro - exact same style, in a sprint in to La Spezia (IIRC) in 1989 - which is even more spectacular.
(If someone knows where there is a link - it would be great.)
EDIT- I found the foto I was thinking of, MSR 88.
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Remembering Laurent
My first recollection of Laurent Fignon was seeing him on TV during the TDF off by himself reading a Stephen King novel, before the start of one of the stages. He seemed detached, cerebral, and a bit arrogant. But did he ever have panache. And what a great rider. Attacking while he was in Yellow.
He reminded me of a swashbuckling pirate with his head band and ponytail swirling in the wind. Forget '89, and remember him as a great two time winner of the Tour, a true champion of many races and a courageous battler against an invidious disease. His image will long live in my memory.
My first recollection of Laurent Fignon was seeing him on TV during the TDF off by himself reading a Stephen King novel, before the start of one of the stages. He seemed detached, cerebral, and a bit arrogant. But did he ever have panache. And what a great rider. Attacking while he was in Yellow.
He reminded me of a swashbuckling pirate with his head band and ponytail swirling in the wind. Forget '89, and remember him as a great two time winner of the Tour, a true champion of many races and a courageous battler against an invidious disease. His image will long live in my memory.
VeloFidelis said:
I saw that one too. I believe it was actually the Campagnolo titanium bottom bracket axle that broke, and they changed the design soon afterwards. From memory he was close to winning the race.
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A tribute from la Repubblica.
http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/a...e-al-tour-e-al-giro/52416?video=&ref=HREC2-19
http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/a...e-al-tour-e-al-giro/52416?video=&ref=HREC2-19
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Very sad news indeed.
Condolences to all his family and may his rest in peace.
It would be lovely if people could post more pictures of the great man by way of tribute if they have them.
May I also add that Robert Millar's piece on him is beautifully expressed, perfectly judged and heartfelt.
Condolences to all his family and may his rest in peace.
It would be lovely if people could post more pictures of the great man by way of tribute if they have them.
May I also add that Robert Millar's piece on him is beautifully expressed, perfectly judged and heartfelt.
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Despite being a frickin pain in the buttocks as a commentator by making fun of pretty much every rider and complaining about them all the time, I'll miss him.
Plus, I guess that's the job of a commentator. France 2 loses a vital member of their great tour squad.
Plus, I guess that's the job of a commentator. France 2 loses a vital member of their great tour squad.
Google translation of: http://www.repubblica.it/sport/ciclismo/2010/08/31/news/morto_laurent_fignon-6653031/
Cycling in mourning Fignon is died
The French rider, twice winner of the Tour de France, died at the age of 50 years. Had cancer.
by Eugene Capodacqua
PARIS - His voice hoarse, had touched off the minds of fans from the bench to stop the process. See Laurent Fignon, the sample of two Tour de France (1983, 1984) and Giro (1989), the popular "teacher" (his nickname because of that air doctoral thin glasses that gave him the round on the lens) in those conditions a comment last stage Tour of Italy was really bad. But it respond with force, still feeling the dialectic of the protagonist in the collision after the race, was both a great message of hope. And many had hoped that the miracle of Armstrong repeated. Instead, the professor has left us. He fought to the end and had to succumb. He was 50 years.
He knew that had cancer (in recent times had taken their vocal cords), we knew that that kind of evil does not escape. But many were hoping. The disease of the century had ruthlessly seized and he was visibly consuming. And his raspy voice was there to demonstrate the presence of the Beast. He was there to show that the will to fight can go on, as strong. Zero hair, sunken eye socket, broken voice from evil. But the look was alive and pulsating. Between chemo and the other wanted to live as she had always done, taking part in the events of that commentator who has been cycling his whole life. Great dignity, great sense of life, great intelligence, like cycling down saddle. It 'was a complete athlete. At the round. And a brave man.
After putting in two knapsack Tour, a tour, the Flèche Wallonne (1986), the Milan-San Remo (1988), and two sometimes the Criterium International race revealed that among Professor in 1982, ended his career in 1993. Now beginning to go crazy doping fiercest, the one with the EPO, which changed history, revolutionizing the honors of many sports (especially in cycling), synthetic hormones and blood pies of all kinds. Too much for one runner who had been educated according to tradition. He was a runner-fashioned. One of the last non-specialists: good for classics and big turns. He could win much more with a little luck. For example, could have matched the Giro and Tour in 1984, when Francesco Moser with lenticular wheels (and the support of a certain Professor Conconi, notorious) had not blown the pink jersey from last time trial in Verona Soave . It was going to win another Tour '89 Lemond if U.S. had not taken the success of only 8 "the very last fraction against time thanks to the then" revolutionary "handlebar horns of an ox. Secondment more short between first and second in the history of the "Grande Boucle". A little 'as if modern technology - in those days as a smokescreen to hide the rampant doping practices that aid in a truly effective - had surprised him and hatched a great plot against him.
In April 2009, more or less twenty years after his victory in the Giro, the initial diagnosis: a tumor of the upper digestive tract: "It 's an advanced cancer, I do not know what I have left to live, but I am optimistic. I want to fight until end. I want to win, "he said with great courage in front of cameras. A news had come as a bolt in the world of pedal tractors. And that forced him to reflect. The question for him, but pressing immodest, was always the same. Had anything to do with the pharmacy forbidden evil? He, the "professor" by the golden glasses has never been removed from the answer. In his autobiography "We were young and irresponsible" (a title that explains itself ...) says he does not know, but does not deny: "I will not say who is not affected. I know nothing. It is impossible to say yes or no. According to doctors, it seems not. all my time doing the same thing as now all do the same thing. If all the cyclists who were doped had to have cancer, we would all ". Perhaps he was right: technically impossible to establish a link of cause and effect. Although it is difficult to think that some praticacce leave no trace. ( August 31, 2010 )
Cycling in mourning Fignon is died
The French rider, twice winner of the Tour de France, died at the age of 50 years. Had cancer.
by Eugene Capodacqua
PARIS - His voice hoarse, had touched off the minds of fans from the bench to stop the process. See Laurent Fignon, the sample of two Tour de France (1983, 1984) and Giro (1989), the popular "teacher" (his nickname because of that air doctoral thin glasses that gave him the round on the lens) in those conditions a comment last stage Tour of Italy was really bad. But it respond with force, still feeling the dialectic of the protagonist in the collision after the race, was both a great message of hope. And many had hoped that the miracle of Armstrong repeated. Instead, the professor has left us. He fought to the end and had to succumb. He was 50 years.
He knew that had cancer (in recent times had taken their vocal cords), we knew that that kind of evil does not escape. But many were hoping. The disease of the century had ruthlessly seized and he was visibly consuming. And his raspy voice was there to demonstrate the presence of the Beast. He was there to show that the will to fight can go on, as strong. Zero hair, sunken eye socket, broken voice from evil. But the look was alive and pulsating. Between chemo and the other wanted to live as she had always done, taking part in the events of that commentator who has been cycling his whole life. Great dignity, great sense of life, great intelligence, like cycling down saddle. It 'was a complete athlete. At the round. And a brave man.
After putting in two knapsack Tour, a tour, the Flèche Wallonne (1986), the Milan-San Remo (1988), and two sometimes the Criterium International race revealed that among Professor in 1982, ended his career in 1993. Now beginning to go crazy doping fiercest, the one with the EPO, which changed history, revolutionizing the honors of many sports (especially in cycling), synthetic hormones and blood pies of all kinds. Too much for one runner who had been educated according to tradition. He was a runner-fashioned. One of the last non-specialists: good for classics and big turns. He could win much more with a little luck. For example, could have matched the Giro and Tour in 1984, when Francesco Moser with lenticular wheels (and the support of a certain Professor Conconi, notorious) had not blown the pink jersey from last time trial in Verona Soave . It was going to win another Tour '89 Lemond if U.S. had not taken the success of only 8 "the very last fraction against time thanks to the then" revolutionary "handlebar horns of an ox. Secondment more short between first and second in the history of the "Grande Boucle". A little 'as if modern technology - in those days as a smokescreen to hide the rampant doping practices that aid in a truly effective - had surprised him and hatched a great plot against him.
In April 2009, more or less twenty years after his victory in the Giro, the initial diagnosis: a tumor of the upper digestive tract: "It 's an advanced cancer, I do not know what I have left to live, but I am optimistic. I want to fight until end. I want to win, "he said with great courage in front of cameras. A news had come as a bolt in the world of pedal tractors. And that forced him to reflect. The question for him, but pressing immodest, was always the same. Had anything to do with the pharmacy forbidden evil? He, the "professor" by the golden glasses has never been removed from the answer. In his autobiography "We were young and irresponsible" (a title that explains itself ...) says he does not know, but does not deny: "I will not say who is not affected. I know nothing. It is impossible to say yes or no. According to doctors, it seems not. all my time doing the same thing as now all do the same thing. If all the cyclists who were doped had to have cancer, we would all ". Perhaps he was right: technically impossible to establish a link of cause and effect. Although it is difficult to think that some praticacce leave no trace. ( August 31, 2010 )
A sad day. Thanks Laurent not just for the cycling but your brave facing of the last year. Rest in peace and my thoughts go to all your family.
And thanks to Robert Millar - another special guy - good to hear from him perhaps especially on this occasion.
And thanks to Robert Millar - another special guy - good to hear from him perhaps especially on this occasion.
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One of the first Tours I followed in the press (no TV coverage back then) was the one in '83. I followed the previous couple of editions and I had a general idea of who the favorites were and what a pro cyclist should look like. Then, out of the blue (for me, at least), came this young French guy and won the race. Naturally, I rooted for him against Hinault, Moser, LeMond...
Cycling lost a great champion, and a great person too, from what I gather. A real down to earth guy, without a huge ego. Only 50. That's just five years older than me.
I was really saddened when I learned of the news.
RIP Laurent Fignon.
Cycling lost a great champion, and a great person too, from what I gather. A real down to earth guy, without a huge ego. Only 50
. That's just five years older than me.I was really saddened when I learned of the news.
RIP Laurent Fignon.
Séan Kelly from last nights Sport at seven , it is the first one , as it describes itself, from 30:46 to 41:08, Kelly first and then a man on the ground who knows about these things, finishing with Roche reprtage, with 5 seconds on Phillip Deignan. I be interested to hear what thought thinks of Kelly carpet work.
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_sportat7.xml
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_sportat7.xml
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