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France - 105 Year Old Cyclist Robert Marchand Sets New Record - 04 Jan 2017

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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • 105-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand during his attempt to break world record in senior endurance race in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France on January 04, 2017. The French cyclist managed 22.547km (14 miles) at the French national velodrome, taking the top spot in a new category - for riders over 105. Robert Marchand already holds the record for those aged over 100 - 26.927km - set in 2012. 'My legs didn't hurt'. 'My arms hurt but that's because of rheumatism.' 'I'm not in such good shape as I was a couple of years back,'. 'I am not here to be champion. I am here to prove that at 105 years old you can still ride a bike,' he said. Born on 26 November 1911, Mr Marchand puts his fitness down to diet - lots of fruit and vegetables, a little meat, not too much coffee - and an hour a day on the cycling home-trainer. A prisoner of war in World War Two, he went on to work as a lorry driver and sugarcane planter in Venezuela, and a lumberjack in Canada. No stranger to sport outside cycling, he competed in gymnastics at national level and has been a boxer. The current men's hour record is held by the UK's Bradley Wiggins - 54.526km - which he set in June 2015.Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • January 5, 2017 - Paris, France - French cyclist Robert Marchand, aged 105, rides on his way to cover 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour to set a new record at the indoor Velodrome National in Montigny-les-Bretonneux, southwest of Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Credit Image: © Visual via ZUMA Press)
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