15 Facts About Jacky Durand

Jacky Durand was born on 10 February 1967 and is a French former professional road bicycle racer.

Jacky Durand rode seven Tours de France, finishing last in the 1999 race.

Jacky Durand won the combativity award in the 1998 and 1999 Tour de France; the latter year he took the Lanterne Rouge.

Jacky Durand has since worked for Eurosport as a commentator.

Jacky Durand started racing in the minime class, the very youngest, but never won a race there or in the older cadet category.

Jacky Durand became celebrated for long, lone attacks which sometimes succeeded but usually didn't.

Jacky Durand's riding style was encouraged by his first directeur sportif, Cyrille Guimard.

Jacky Durand won the Ronde van Vlaanderen, or Tour of Flanders, in 1992,36 years after the last French winner, Jean Forestier, in 1956.

Jacky Durand took drugs during the Tour de la Cote Picarde in 1996 and was given a one-month probationary suspension.

Jacky Durand was disqualified during the Tour de France in 2002 for holding on to a car during the mountainous stage to the Plateau de Beille in the Pyrenees.

Jacky Durand's name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004.

Jacky Durand retired from racing in 2005 after receiving no team offers.

Jacky Durand followed that year's Tour de France as representative of the supermarket chain, Champion.

Jacky Durand stayed loyal to his first club, CC Renaze, throughout his career.

Jacky Durand's body was found in a lake on 2 January 2018, in between Ballots and Saint-Michel-de-la-Roe.