L'Équipe is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is noted for coverage of association football, rugby, motorsport, and cycling. Its predecessor, L'Auto, was a general sports paper that also covered auto racing which was gaining popularity at the turn of the twentieth century.
Richard Virenque is a retired French professional road racing cyclist. He was one of the most popular French riders with fans for his boyish personality and his long, lone attacks. He was a climber, best remembered for winning the King of the Mountains competition of the Tour de France a record seven times, but he is best known from the general French public as one of the central figures in a widespread doping scandal in 1998, the Festina Affair, and for repeatedly denying his involvement despite damning evidence.
Philippe Thys was a Belgian cyclist and three times winner of the Tour de France.
Fernando Escartín Coti is a Spanish former road racing cyclist. Between 1995 and 2000 he came in the top 10 of the Tour de France five times and in that same time period finished on the podium in 2nd place at the Vuelta a España, twice.
Stéphane Augé is a French former road racing cyclist. Following his career, he worked as a sporting director for UCI Professional Continental team Cofidis from 2011 until 2016. While he initially had a contract to ride competitively with them in the 2011 season, he chose instead to retire as a cyclist and fill an opening in the team's management. He was known to be part of the breakaway in every first stage of the Tour de France.
Wilfried Cretskens is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. He rode most of his career for the Quick-Step–Innergetic team, where he was a domestique for the team leaders in the classic races, among others Tom Boonen. His most notable career win was the 2007 Tour of Qatar.
Jean-Baptiste Dotto was the first French racing cyclist to win the Vuelta a España. He rode the Tour de France 13 times, coming fourth in 1954.
Nick Gates is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer.
The following lists events that happened during 1992 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Martin Earley is an Irish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed in the 1984 and 1996 Olympic Games.
Events from the year 1963 in France.
The 1993 France rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of eight matches played by the France national rugby union team in South Africa in June and July 1993. The French team won four matches, drew two and lost two. They won their two match international series against the South Africa national rugby union team, drawing the first game and winning the second for a one-nil series victory. The tour was marred by a serious facial injury suffered by the captain, Jean-François Tordo, who was raked by Garry Pagel in the match against Western Province. Tordo required 50 stitches and plastic surgery and took no further part in the tour.
Christian Levavasseur is a retired French cyclist, who won the combativity award in the 1980 Tour de France.
Graham Jones is a former professional English road racing cyclist from Manchester, England. He rode in the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia. He is often described as one of the classiest riders that Britain has ever produced, but his career was hindered by being over raced in his early days, and by injury in his later days. He is one of the few English-speaking riders to have stood on the podium of the Flanders Classics Het Volk.
Christophe Capelle is a French former racing cyclist.
Denis Roux is a former French cyclist.
Jean-Philippe "Flupke" Vandenbrande is a Belgian former racing cyclist. He rode in seven editions of the Tour de France. His best finish was 37th overall in 1988. He also won a stage of the 1978 Vuelta a España.
Thierry Bourguignon is a French former road cyclist.
Joseph Novales was a French professional cyclist. He was professional from 1962 until 1966.
