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- ↑ Bonnot, Pierre-Michel (26 May 2020). "Michel Tachdjian, champion de France avec le Racing en 1990". L'Équipe (in French).
- ↑ "Le vrai-faux retour de Michel Tachdjian". Le Parisien (in French). 29 August 2000.
- ↑ "France take gamble in the Grand Slam stakes" . Sunday Telegraph . 10 March 1991.