Racers, French leaders pay tribute to Laurent Fignon
Sports • August 2010 • Views: 787
Racers and French leaders paid tribute on Tuesday to Laurent Fignon, who died following a battle with cancer.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed “an extraordinary and exceptional champion who will forever go down in the history of the Tour de France, in French cycling.”
Fignon won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984, and was runner-up in 1989 when he lost by just eight seconds, the smallest margin in the history of the race, to American Greg LeMond.
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