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8 unusual facts about Arnaud Tournant


Arnaud Tournant

:1st Team Sprint, World Cup, Cali (with Laurent Gané & Damien Gerard)

:1st Kilo, World Cup, Monterrey

:1st Sprint, World Cup, Cali

In October the following year, at the age of 23, Tournant became the first man to go under the one minute mark, breaking his own world record with a new time of 58.875 seconds set at La Paz, Bolivia.

Tournant refused to speak at a post-race press conference at the Olympics, until Stephane Mandard, a journalist for Le Monde newspaper, and an anti-doping campaigner, left the room.

:1st Sprint, World Cup, Cali

:1st Team Sprint, World Cup, Monterrey (with Franck Durivaux & Arnaud Dublé)

:1st Team Sprint, World Cup, Cali (with Mickaël Bourgain & Vincent Le Quellec)


Mickaël Bourgain

Mickaël Bourgain (born 28 May 1980 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) is a French track cyclist, who won a bronze medal in the men's team sprint race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Laurent Gané and Arnaud Tournant.


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