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References
- ↑ "Guerrando Lenzi". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ↑ "Tour de France 1966". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ↑ "53ème Tour de France 1966". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 6 December 2011.
