Cees Priem

Cornelis Johannes Priem, known as Cees Priem, is a Dutch cyclist born in Ovezande in Zeeland on 27 October 1950. He raced as an amateur from 1967 to 1972, winning the Ronde van Midden-Zeeland in 1970, the Olympia's Tour, and stages of the Tour of Austria and the Milk Race, and he rode the road race at the 1972 Munich Olympics, finishing twelfth. He turned professional in 1973 and became Dutch road race champion in 1974. He won stages of the Tour de France in 1975 and 1980, stages of the Vuelta a Espana in 1976 and 1977 and several team time trial stages with TI-Raleigh-Creda, and in 1983 he won the Three Days of De Panne before retiring in 1984. He later became sports director of the TVM team, and was convicted in France after the 1998 Festina affair, a verdict he always disputed.