Tag: Robert Marchand

105-year-old Frenchman pedals into history books

by Myriam LEMETAYER Agence France-Presse SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AFP) – A 105-year-old Frenchman set a new one-hour cycling record for his age Wednesday — although Robert Marchand was already in a class of his own. Marchand pedalled for 22.547 kilometres (14.01 miles) in the national velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines west of Paris to the cheers of hundreds of spectators — and when he had finished he said he could have gone faster. “I didn’t see the sign […]