La Professeur is dead, died this morning of advanced cancer in his guts. He was still commentating for France television when Skywalker and I watched the tour in France this year.
Skywalker and I kept joking about the poor bastard with no voice battling on like some Tour cyclist climbing up a mountain unwilling to admit defeat ... the studio should tell him to stay home ... we then realised it was Fignon and his voice was ravaged by the chemo ... yep, good call fellas!!
Classic quote by Fignon when a fan recognised him and remarked "Hey I remember you, you're the guy who lost the tour by eight seconds!"
Fignon replied: "No monsieur, I'm the guy who won it twice"
He should have made a comeback, imagine how thin he was at the end!
ReplyDeleteAh shit I feel even worse about paying out his voice during the coverage now...to be fair he did sound like he'd swallowed 3 cartons of Winny Blues for breakfast though...the most unfortunate thing for Fignon was not that he lost by 8 seconds but that he did so to one of the biggest knobheads on earth in Greg LeMond. RIP La Professeur.
ReplyDeleteComeback????
ReplyDeleteI can see it now.
"La Professeur has crashed on the descent but has decided to continue with one arm. Souvenier hunters quickly made off with the dismembered limb which was lost at a feeding station while reaching for his feed bag. What a champion..Lance who?"
Yep, plus LIVESTRONG wristband as a Headband. Nice!
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