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- ↑ "Rollando Picchiotti". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ↑ "Tour de France 1966". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ↑ "53ème Tour de France 1966". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 6 December 2011.
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