Albert Van Vlierberghe

Albert Van Vlierberghe (18 March 1942 to 20 December 1991) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In the Tour de France he won three stages, and he also won three stages in the Giro d'Italia. He took part in the 1964 Summer Olympics, where he competed in the team time trial and the team pursuit. He rode for the Flandria team. His name also appears in the 1999 book Breaking the Chain: Drugs and Cycling, the True Story by the Belgian sports physiotherapist Willy Voet, who was then the team's soigneur. Voet describes the 1979 Deutschland Tour, where he claims Van Vlierberghe asked to be driven ahead of the other riders to skip a six-mile hilly stretch before slipping back into the race and finishing sixth on the stage, an episode Voet used to argue that cheating was a way of life for many professionals of that period.