Laurent Fignon, the Frenchman who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and lost to Greg LeMond in 1989 in the race's closest finish, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 50. His death was confirmed by ...

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Laurent Fignon, who has died of cancer aged 50, won the Tour de France twice, but was also widely celebrated for losing it, in the narrowest defeat in Tour history. He was a charismatic cycling ...

Remembering Laurent Fignon: As Julian Alaphilippe prepares to defend his maillot jaune in the first mountain stage of le Tour, it’s 10 years since we lost another man who not only wore that beautiful ...

Laurent Fignon, the Frenchman who won two Tours de France, a Giro d'Italia, two editions of Milan-San Remo, La Flèche Wallonne, the Criterium International twice and his national title, has died, aged ...

French cycling champion Laurent Fignon, who won the Tour de France twice and missed a third victory by the narrowest margin in the event’s 107-year history, died Tuesday after a long fight with cancer ...

Follow me: Fignon leads Bernard Hinault, his compatriot and rival, in the 1984 Tour Credit: Photo: AFP Sport is a cruel arena as a brief retrospective of Laurent Fignon's career will conform. The ...

(CNN)-- Tour de France legend Laurent Fignon has died from cancer in a Paris hospital aged just 50. Fignon won the Tour in 1983 and 1984 but was perhaps most famous for the 1989 contest, when he was ...

PARIS, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Laurent Fignon, who twice won the Tour de France, has died in Paris of cancer. He was 50. Fignon's death was reported by France 2 TV, a network that employed the former cyclist ...

PARIS — Laurent Fignon, 50, who twice won the Tour de France in the 1980s and barely lost the closest and most memorable finish of that 107-year-old bicycle race, died of lung and intestinal cancer ...