French Alpine skier, who won a gold medal in the Olympic downhill competition at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, trailed by Austrian Michael…
French road bicycle racer.
French road cyclist racer, his greats achievements included winning the “Giro di Lombardia” in 1990. He was widely known for fighting doping. Born 1 day…
French road bicycle racer, the only rider to have won a stage of the Tour de France on 14 July, France’s national day, while wearing…
Belgian road bicycle racer who won the Paris–Nice in 1951 and the Tour of Flanders in 1952. Roger Decock died on 30 May 2020 at…
Belgian road bicycle racer who won a silver medal in the madison at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He raced in the Atlanta Olympics 1996, placed…
Belgian professional road bicycle racer, most famous for winning the 1929 Tour de France. He led the Tour until stage seven when two punctures on…
French motorcycle road racer, who currently races in the Superbike World Championship for VOLTCOM Crescent Suzuki, aboard a GSX-R1000. De Puniet also competed in Grand…
Belgian former motorcycle racer, sports commentator. Link to Wikipedia biography
French cyclist racer, BMX specialist, twice world champion. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
André Darrigade: French Road Cyclist and Manifesting Generator André Darrigade, born on April 24, 1929, in Dax, France, is a celebrated French road cyclist known…
French road bicycle racer. Between 1970 and 1978, Danguillaume won 7 stages in the Tour de France. He also competed in the team time trial…
French road bicycle racer. In his 11-year career, he rode for BigMat-Auber93 between 1997 and 2000, Festina in 2001 and then for UCI ProTeam Française…
French yacht racer who participated in significant offshore races and record attempts. In April 2012, he achieved 7 circumnavigations of the world, on mono or…
French musher, and France’s most successful sled dog racer.
French theater, television and cinema actor, son of actress (Myriam Boyer). He was bred in Paris by his Italian grand-mother, Boyer’s mother. When a teenager,…
French road bicycle racer, who competed professionally from 1984 to 1995. Link to Wikipedia biography
Italian bicycle racer. Nicknamed Il Campionissimo (“champions of the champions”), Coppi was one of the most successful and most popular cyclists of all time. He…
American Olympic and World Cup alpine ski racer, a member of the Skiing Cochrans family. Cochran-Siegle specializes in giant slalom and super-G, and also races…
American World Cup alpine ski racer who specialized in the technical events and whose best World Cup finish was seventh in a Giant slalom in…
French professional road bicycle racer. During his career, he won two stages in the Tour de France. He died on 7 December 1994. Link to…
French road bicycle racer, who won three stages in the Tour de France. He won one of these stages, in the 1987 Tour de France,…
French road bicycle racer. He was King of the Mountains in the 1990 Tour de France. On 13 August 1999 Claveyrolat was driving a car…
Italian professional cyclist, placing in the Tour de France three times. Cipollini, who began his professional career as a road racer in 1989, is noted…
French road cyclist racer and pioneer of cyclo-cross, the first one to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France. Link to Wikipedia biography
American racecar driver who participated in six Indianapolis 500 races. He finished in the top ten 8 times, with his best finish in 7th position…
French road cyclist racer, one of the best since 2000. He twice won “Les 4 jours de Dunkerque” and 3 stages on the Tour de…
French road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2001 and 2013. His biggest career victory was winning the Mountains classification in the Tour…
Florian Camathias: A Legendary Swiss Sidecar Racer Florian Camathias, born on March 23, 1924, in Wittenbach, Switzerland, remains an iconic figure in the world of…
French road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2003 and 2011. His biggest success was winning the 8th Stage in the 2006 Tour…
British Formula One driver currently driving for McLaren. He is the 2009 Formula One World Champion, driving for Brawn GP. He is the fourth child…
American dog sled racer, a four-time winner of the Iditarod Alaskan Dog Race, a grueling competitive event. Butcher grew up in Cambridge, MA in an…
Jean Brucy: A Journey through the World of Rally Raid and Human Design Born on September 4, 1962, in Montargis, France, Jean Brucy is a…
American alpine ski racer from a noted family who was a member of the U.S. Ski Team for two years after graduating with an engineering…
American film and TV director of documentaries and a few feature films. Energetic and curious, he is 6’ 3″, 195 lbs, with black-gray hair and…
British skeleton racer who competed from 1996 until his retirement from the sport in 2015. He won the gold medal in the men’s event at…
American geophysicist who popularized the term global warming when he published a paper entitled “Climate Change: Are we on the Brink of a Pronounced Global…
French mountain bike racer, she won the Gold medal at the 2012 Olympics. She was double world champion (2012 and 13). Link to Wikipedia biography
American race car driver who established a new world speed record on 15 November 1965 with a jet powered car at an average speed of…
French alpine ski racer who won a gold medal in the slalom at the 1962 World Championships. Bozon died on 7 July 1964 at age…
Éric Boyer: A Journey Through Cycling and Human Design Éric Boyer, born on December 2, 1963, in Choisy-le-Roi, France, is celebrated as a remarkable French…
French road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 1995 and 2013. Bouyer suffers from narcolepsy, resulting in sudden sleep attacks and cataplexy, and…
French professional bicycle racer on road and track. He won Paris–Tours in 1956 and remained the last Frenchman to win until Jacky Durand won in…
French horse racer.
American engineer who tests off-the-scale for his outstanding mechanical ability. Crazy for speed-racing from youth, he had a motorcycle at 17 and was a Go-Kart…
French motorcycle racer. He died on 19 November 2005 in Macao, China. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
French road bicycle racer, the younger brother of Louison Bobet. He won Paris–Nice in 1955, Genoa-Nice in 1956 and the Circuit du Morbihan in 1953.…