oldpotatoe
08-25-2018, 08:12 AM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO…
Roger “Mr. Roubaix” de Vlaeminck turned 71 today. During a 19-year professional career that spanned from 1970 to 1988, overlapping with the best years of the Eddy Merckx era, de Vlaeminck won 22 stages at the Giro d’Italia and 15 stages at Tirreno-Adriatico in addition to winning Milan-San Remo three times. Most famously, in 1977 de Vlaeminck became the first rider to win Paris-Roubaix four times, a record he now shares with Tom Boonen.
Throughout their careers, de Vlaeminck and Merckx both finished in the top 10 of one-day classics on 38 occasions; seven times they finished first or second to the other, including twice at Paris-Roubaix.
In total, de Vlaeminck had 164 professional wins
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO…
Roger “Mr. Roubaix” de Vlaeminck turned 71 today. During a 19-year professional career that spanned from 1970 to 1988, overlapping with the best years of the Eddy Merckx era, de Vlaeminck won 22 stages at the Giro d’Italia and 15 stages at Tirreno-Adriatico in addition to winning Milan-San Remo three times. Most famously, in 1977 de Vlaeminck became the first rider to win Paris-Roubaix four times, a record he now shares with Tom Boonen.
Throughout their careers, de Vlaeminck and Merckx both finished in the top 10 of one-day classics on 38 occasions; seven times they finished first or second to the other, including twice at Paris-Roubaix.
In total, de Vlaeminck had 164 professional wins