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- ↑ "Tour de France 1968". Cycling Archives. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ↑ "55ème Tour de France 1968". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012.
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