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- ↑ "Gaston Van Waesberghe". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ↑ "Tour de France 1919". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ↑ "13ème Tour de France 1919". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012.
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