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- ↑ "Henri Tesi". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ↑ "Tour de France 1926". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ↑ ""20ème Tour de France 1926". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012.
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