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Triumph to tragedy: Frank Vandenbroucke's Liège-Bastogne-Liège win
Manage episode 259615267 series 2639671
We revisit Frank Vandenbroucke's swaggering La Doyenne victory in 1999 - a win which promised to be the first of many Monuments, but ultimately proved the pinnacle of a highly troubled life and career.
It was a year in which everything the flamboyant tyro touched – even his hair – seemed to turn to gold. So dominant was Vandenbroucke’s showing that spring that the question had to be asked: was this the second coming of Eddy Merckx?
But 10 years later, he was dead.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
51 episoder
Manage episode 259615267 series 2639671
We revisit Frank Vandenbroucke's swaggering La Doyenne victory in 1999 - a win which promised to be the first of many Monuments, but ultimately proved the pinnacle of a highly troubled life and career.
It was a year in which everything the flamboyant tyro touched – even his hair – seemed to turn to gold. So dominant was Vandenbroucke’s showing that spring that the question had to be asked: was this the second coming of Eddy Merckx?
But 10 years later, he was dead.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
51 episoder
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