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- ↑ "Jean-Paul Hosotte". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ↑ "Tour de France 1981". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ↑ "68ème Tour de France 1981". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012.
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