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