"He was a special man to me, to cycling, and to all of France. Laurent, we will all miss you."
—Lance Armstrong, commenting on the death of legendary French road racer Laurent Fignon, who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and lost to Greg LeMond in 1989 in the race's closest finish. He died Tuesday of cancer. He was 50.
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