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> Pic of the Day
> 31 March, 2006
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> Seventy-one Years Ago - René Vietto in Tears
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> Paris-Nice, 1935. By placing sixth in the first two stages, René
> Vietto earned the Paris-Nice leader's jersey, with a comfortable
> margin.
> Winner of four stages in the 1934 Tour de France, the
> twenty-one-year-old from Rocheville held the jersey into stage 5A, a
> 71km team time trial in which he took second place behind teammate
> Raoul
> Lesueur, with fellow Helyett riders Adrien Buttafocchi and Léon
Level
> finishing third and fourth. But just 1'34" behind was Belgian rider
> Antoine Dignef, who's Colin teammates were just getting into their
> stride. On stage 5B, just 125km from Toulon to Cannes, Vietto
> faltered
> disastrously, while Dignef finished second on the stage and moved to
> within 1'17" of Vietto with just one stage remaining. Here the young
> French rider cries uncontrollably in the arms of his Directeur, André
> Trialoux:
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> http://www.wooljersey.com/
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> But this story has a happy ending... Vietto and his teammates
> rallied on
> the final stage, placing Vietto sixth at the finish, adding eight
> seconds to his lead over Dignef, and securing René's victory.
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>> From "Match l'Intran" No.451, 2 April 1935.
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> Aldo Ross
> Middletown, Ohio
>
"Tel qui rit vendredi dimanche pleurera".
Laugh on Friday, cry on Sunday ~ Old French proverb
Dennis Young
Hotaka, Japan