CUTE GAY TWINK CUMS IN HIS CAKE PRO
When racing resumed in February 1996 Vandenbroucke opened his third season as a pro by ripping the low-hanging fruit off its branches, trading up his 1994 stage win at the Tour Méd for the overall and then adding the Italian opener the Trofeo Laigueglia to his palmarès. Like Stephen Roche before him he turned to the Munich-based specialist Hans Müller-Wohlfahrt and like Stephen Roche before him his fragile knee would contribute to an inconsistent career.
Vandenbroucke had sat out the 1995 spring classics with a knee injury and within a week of his Paris-Brussels victory his knee again had him off the bike.
In June he took the win in the opening stage of the Tour of Luxembourg and three months later “Frank’s first big win in Mapei colours came directly at the expense of Lotto and his uncle” when he won the September classic Paris-Brussels, beating a Lotto rider to the line. Lotto, even then, was one of the runts of the peloton but now Vandenbroucke was playing with the big boys, his new team-mates including Tony Rominger, Abraham Olano, and Johan Museeuw. At the start of April 1995 Vandenbroucke was allowed to take off his Lotto jersey and put on a Mapei one. Lawyers were called in to thrash out a deal. The Belgian federation and the UCI were called in to rule on the issue. Which is when Pat Lefevere came along with an offer of five million Belgian francs a year (£125,000, we’re told) for a two-year contract with Mapei. This guy is probably going to be a legend.’”) It was his only victory of note all year and by the middle of the season Vandenbroucke was already looking to escape his two-year deal with Lotto. He wasn’t on Earth that day, he was flying. Vandenbroucke went with the Belgian option, where his uncle was DS and his father a mechanic.Īt his debut race for Lotto in February 1994, the Tour Méditerranéen, Vandenbroucke made good on early season form honed by a winter of Sixes and snatched some low-hanging fruit, victory in the final stage (“‘What he did that day, for every person in cycling, was history,’ says Erwann Menthéour. Novemail (“the predecessor of the top Dutch team Panasonic”) and Lotto (today’s Lotto-Soudal) both offered him two million Belgian francs a year (£50,000, we’re told), triple the normal neo-pro salary.
CUTE GAY TWINK CUMS IN HIS CAKE PROFESSIONAL
Though only 24 Vandenbroucke already had five years in the professional ranks under his wheels and was racing with his third team, Cofidis, following four seasons at Mapei and after having spent his debut season at Lotto.įrom the off Vandenbroucke had been a man in demand. Given the fragility of his knee and the fragility of his ego we too should be overcome by the realisation of what he achieved and not write him off as a wasted talent. Though he had predicted the result even Vandenbroucke seemed overcome by the realisation of what he had just achieved as he celebrated victory in the 85th edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The year Frank Vandenbroucke told the world he’d attack on the final climb, the Côte de Saint-Nicolas, turned word into deed, and wrote himself into the history books. La doyenne? Meh.Įvery few years, though, the old lady of the Monuments casts off her Zimmer frame and really lets rip. Milan-Sanremo may well be more than six forgettable hours of pootling along followed by a quarter of an hour of heart-racing excitement but at least those six hours have some stunning scenery to keep you awake. Liège-Bastogne-Liège is the most boring of the five Monuments. ~ Dave Gilmour / Roger Waters / Richard Wright, Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Weaknesses: McGrath gets to have his cake and eat it, complaining about the tabloid culture that kept Vandenbroucke in the headlines even when he was off the bike while exhuming his rotting corpse and dissecting his private life God is Dead – The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling’s Great Wasted Talent by Andy McGrath (2022, 301 pages) is published by Bantam Press PenguinĪnd we’ll bask in the shadow of yesterday’s triumphĬome on you boy child, you winner and loser Strengths: If you were a fan of Vandenbroucke during the brief time he lit up the sport this is a book that will bring back memories What it is: A biography of Frank Vandenbroucke, winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1999 Title: God is Dead – The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling’s Great Wasted Talent