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- ↑ "Daniel Ducreux Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ↑ Livre d`Or 1968. Paris: Miroir du Cyclisme. 1968. p. 32.
