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- ↑ "Tour de France 1990". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ↑ "77ème Tour de France 1990". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
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