Family, friends, former greats of French cycling and hundred of local people paid their last tributes to Raymond Poulidor at his funeral in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat on Tuesday Poulidor died last ...

Raymond Poulidor, who died last Wednesday aged 83, was a cyclist who, had his career not coincided with those of Jacques Anquetil and Eddie Merckx, would surely have won a clutch of Tours de France; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAINT-LEONARD-DE-NOBLAT, France, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Mourners at the funeral of Raymond Poulidor on Tuesday paid tribute to a ...

FILE - In this July 18, 1972 file photo, cyclists (from left to right) Raymond Poulidor, France, Cyrille Guimard, France, Felice Gimondi, Italy , Eddy Merckx, Belgium and Julio Jimenez, Spain, lead ...

Spain's first ever Tour de France winner Federico Martín Bahamontes has paid tribute to long-standing rival Raymond Poulidor, who died on Tuesday aged 83, describing the great French racer as "a ...

PARIS—Raymond Poulidor, the affable French cyclist whose career of dramatic narrow losses at the Tour de France made him a national darling but never a Tour champion, died on Wednesday. He was 83.

BRUSSELS (AP) - Raymond Poulidor, the 'œeternal runner-up'ť whose repeated failure to win the Tour de France helped him conquer French hearts and become the country's all-time favorite cyclist, has ...

He never won the Tour de France, cycling’s most important race, but a series of near misses made him a favorite of French fans. By Ian Austen Raymond Poulidor, a French cyclist who never won the Tour ...

Raymond Poulidor, the “eternal runner-up” whose repeated failure to win the Tour de France helped him conquer French hearts and become the country’s all-time favorite cyclist, has died. He was 83.

BRUSSELSBRUSSELS — Raymond Poulidor, the “eternal runner-up” whose repeated failure to win the Tour de France helped him conquer French hearts and become the country’s all-time favorite cyclist, has ...