French cycling legend Lapebie dies at 93
- By VeloNews.com
- Published Mar. 8, 2010
By Agence France Presse
French cyclist Guy Lapebie, a double Olympic champion from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, died on Monday at theage of 93, his family confirmed.
Lapebie had been ill since November and died in hospital at Saint-Gaudens in southwest France.
He won gold in the team pursuit and the team road race in Berlin, but suffered bitter disappointment when he took individual silver in the road race behind teammate Robert Charpentier, whom he had regularly beaten.
“It was a drama, I was inconsolable,” he told AFP in 2006. “I always carried the disappointment with me.”
Lapebie went on to finish third in the 1948 Tour de France. His brother Roger won the Tour de France in 1937.