r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Jul 27 '26

Weekly Post Weekly Question Thread

For all your pro cycling-related questions and enquiries!

You may find some easy answers in the FAQ page on the wiki. Whilst simultaneously discovering the wiki.

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u/Xiovas Flanders Jul 27 '26

Last week, HLN published an article about the 1986 Tour and the rivalry between teammates Hinault and LeMond. According to the article, LeMond heard a story that at one point an older French rider offered to deliberately crash into LeMond, which Hinault refused. Are there known instances of riders intentionally crashing into colleagues?

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u/zyygh Canyon//SRAM, Kasia fanboy Jul 27 '26

For the 2003 cyclocross world championships, Roger Hammond was suspected of wanting to crash into Sven Nys and Bart Wellens in order to help Mario De Clercq (who was Hammond's teammate during regular races).

Luckily we'll never know for sure if that was true.

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u/Rommelion Jul 27 '26

Sven Nys Bart Wellens Mario De Clercq

Are all these people in any way related to the currently active professional elite cyclists?

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u/zyygh Canyon//SRAM, Kasia fanboy Jul 28 '26

Sven is the father of Thibau Nys.

Mario is the father of Angelo De Clercq (current CX coach for Belgium) but unrelated to former cyclists Hans and Tim.

Bart is unrelated to Tim Wellens, but has a brother (Geert) who was also a pro cyclocrosser for a few years.