Bernard Hinault won his fifth and final Tour de France, and to this day, he remains the last Frenchman to have won La Grande ...

PARIS Laurent Fignon, one of France’s greatest and most enigmatic cyclists, who won the Tour de France in back-to-back years before losing the event in 1989 to the American Greg LeMond in the ...

Laurent Fignon, the Frenchman who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and lost to American Greg LeMond in 1989 in the race’s closest finish, has died of cancer. He was 50.

PARIS — Laurent Fignon, 50, who twice won the Tour de France in the 1980s and barely lost the closest and most memorable finish of that 107-year-old bicycle race, died of lung and intestinal ...

French cycling champion Laurent Fignon, who won the Tour de France twice and missed a third victory by the narrowest margin in the event's 107-year history, died Tuesday after a long fight with ...

Laurent Fignon, a Frenchman who twice won the Tour de France but was defeated by American rival Greg LeMond in perhaps the event’s greatest race, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He was 50.

Laurent Fignon, who died on Tuesday from cancer aged 50, was a French cyclist who erupted on to the professional sporting scene in the early 1980s, winning the first of his two successive Tours de ...

Laurent Fignon led the 1984 Giro d'Italia until Francesco Moser took the win on the final stage. Francesco Moser, a man in demand on the 1984 Giro d'Italia. (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti) ...

Laurent Fignon, the Frenchman who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and lost to Greg LeMond in 1989 in the race’s closest finish, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 50. His death was confirmed ...

Laurent Fignon, the Frenchman who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and lost to Greg LeMond in 1989 in the race's closest finish, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 50. His death was confirmed ...