Pic of the Day 4th February, 2007 Forty-Seven Years Ago
Winter Training with Elsy Jacobs
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Narbonne-Plage, France, February 1960. Training camp for Roger
Rivière and two of his St.Raphaël - Geminiani teammates.
Accompanying them on this day is Luxembourg's Elsy Jacobs, 1958 World
Road Champion and Women's World Hour Record holder. Jacobs record of
41.347kms, set on 9th November 1958, lasted fourteen years.
>From left to right: Michel Dejouhannet, Elsy Jacobs, Roger Rivière
(Men's World Hour Record 1957 & 1959), and Roger Walkowiak (1956 Tour de
France winner). Smart-looking mud guards on the bikes of Rivière and
Walkowiak. Although all four are riding Geminiani bikes, no two bikes
look the same. From "But et Club - Le Miroir des Sports" No.783, 1st
February 1960.
Aldo Ross
Middletown, OH
USA