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105-year-old cyclist breaks an hour-long distance record
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Washington Post, January 5, 2017
Posted: February 13th, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/0...

Ninety-two times the Frenchman raced around the velodrome, a curved indoor bicyclist track, at an average speed of 14 mph. That speed would be impressive for just about anyone on two wheels, but it was probably particularly satisfying for Robert Marchand. Mostly because, when he was young, one of his coaches told him to give up the sport. Its even more impressive when one considers Marchand is 105 years old. As the clock signaled that hed been riding for one hour, the crowd of hundreds in Le Vlodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, near Paris, chanted his name, but its likely no one wondered whether he had captured a new world record. Of course he had the category was created by the International Cycling Union specifically for him. And now it has been set: the record for longest official distance ridden in an hour in the newly minted older-than-105 class is 22.5 kilometers (14 miles). Im now waiting for a rival, Marchand told the AP. Still, he said he could have gone faster, if he had not run into a little trouble on the track. I did not see the sign warning me I had 10 minutes left, he told the Guardian. Otherwise I would have gone faster, I would have posted a better time.

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