1. Hippolyte Aucouturier was a French professional road bicycle racer.
13 Facts About Hippolyte Aucouturier
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Hippolyte Aucouturier was an outspoken man whom the Tour organiser, Henri Desgrange, referred to in L'Auto as Le Terrible.
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Hippolyte Aucouturier took up the pursuit on the way to Pontoise, taking with him Louis Trousselier and others.
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Hippolyte Aucouturier, recovered from typhoid the previous year, tested the group repeatedly before Doullens.
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Hippolyte Aucouturier entered the velodrome at Roubaix alongside Claude Chapperon, 50 metres ahead of the others.
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Hippolyte Aucouturier was crying and tears ran down the pink creases in his dusty face.
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Hippolyte Aucouturier ate, he stood up, clenched his hands and slowly took hold of his machine.
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The robust Hippolyte Aucouturier brought to ground by stomach pain, abandoned at La Palisse, 135km from the finish.
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Hippolyte Aucouturier has abandoned the race at La Palisse, telling me he could no longer continue the battle, that he had abominable stomach cramp caused by bad food.
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I'd foreseen Hippolyte Aucouturier's weakening [effondrement], but I thought it would have happened a lot further on.
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Hippolyte Aucouturier left the race for good the following day, racing to Bordeaux, when he crashed in Moissac.
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Hippolyte Aucouturier has one leg wrapped in a thick bandage and the poor boy limps markedly.
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Hippolyte Aucouturier was one of the four leading riders disqualified at the end in a race so chaotic that Henri Desgrange swore he would never run another.