Introducing Re-Cycle: Triumph to tragedy with Frank Vandenbroucke
The Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport
Eurosport
4.6 • 814 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Life in lockdown means we can't bring you any episodes with Brad right now, but why not take advantage of a prolonged break in the racing calendar to revisit some of the great tales from the peloton's past?
There are over 20 episodes of Re-Cycle, Eurosport's cycling history podcast, for you to discover, and today we are giving you the most recent in full as we revisit Frank Vandenbroucke's swaggering La Doyenne victory in 1999 - a win which promised to be the first of many Monuments, but ultimately proved the pinnacle of a highly troubled life and career.
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| 0:55.9 | We recall 1999 and what would turn out to be the pinnacle of Frank Vandenbrook's troubled career, |
| 1:01.9 | a dominant performance of power and panache that saw him solo to victory at that year's L'Age-Baston-Lij. |
| 1:08.9 | But the fragile Belgian's first major classics win would also be his |
| 1:13.7 | last as a whole host of addictions cocaine amphetamins sleeping pills alcohol and fame combined |
| 1:22.0 | to turn a prodigious talent inside out on the front pages of the Belgian tabloids. |
| 1:30.3 | So dominant was Vandenbrookers La Doyen showing that spring that the question had to be asked. |
| 1:39.3 | Was this the second coming of Eddie Merck's? Charming and charismatic, yet fragile and intense, the tall, dashing, |
| 1:46.3 | bleached blonde Van Dambrucker was immensely self-confident. But he was also racked by self-doubt, |
| 1:52.8 | a man his biographer describes as either zero or 100, nothing in between. Having joined French |
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