Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon dies
Category Video, World | Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
The two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died aged 50 following a battle with cancer.
The French rider won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and finished runner-up in 1989, losing by just eight seconds, the smallest margin in the history of the race, to the American Greg LeMond.
Fignon also won the 1989 Tour of Italy and recorded 76 victories in all, and has written a book on his life “Nous étions jeunes et insouciants” (We were young and carefree), released in June 2009.