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03-25-2024, 05:41 PM
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RIP Gord Singleton
I got word yesterday of his passing.
I didn't follow his career very closely. https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/...don-singleton/ 
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03-25-2024, 05:53 PM
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Sorry to read this--he was in the gang that hit their stride after I quit racing, so I don't think I overlapped with him at any events, but he definitely was the real deal.
(Also a sad comment to take some comfort in him being reunited with Jocelyn Lovell, who I did race with.  )
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03-25-2024, 09:13 PM
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I'm sad to hear this. I lost a friend recently, who also died too young from prostate cancer.
Here's a television piece from 1982 about Singleton's last year competing in professional track, when he was the first Canadian to win a world championship in cycling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQRfFTrzsw.
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It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi. --Peter Schickele
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03-26-2024, 12:17 PM
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I went to a training camp in Florida in the late '70s, '79 I think. Through some quirk of fate, I got put in a cabin with the Canadian national team as the token American. They didn't have me kicked out and actually didn't mind me riding with them. So I'm pretty sure I remember him from back then. I got really sick right after that and stopped racing, so I never saw any of them again.
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