About Lucien Van Impe
Lucien Van Impe is a former Belgian cyclist, who competed professionally between 1969 and 1987. He excelled mainly as a climber in multiple-day races such as the Tour de France. He was the winner of the 1976 Tour de France, and six times winner of the mountains classification in the Tour de France. In 1971, Van Impe won his first mountains classification in the Tour de France. Guimard claims it was his order to attack Zoetemelk that won Van Impe the Tour, shouting at Van Impe that he'd run him off the road with the car if he didn't attack. He would repeat that five more times, a record then shared with Bahamontes. Former French champion Cyrille Guimard, who retired in early 1976, became directeur sportif in 1976.
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