Dag Otto Lauritzen

Dag Otto Lauritzen, born on 13 September 1956, is a Norwegian television personality and retired professional cyclist. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he won a bronze medal in the individual road race. He was the first Norwegian to win a stage of the Tour de France, which he did on Bastille Day in 1987 at Luz Ardiden, and over his career he rode the Tour de France eight times. He began cycling to recuperate from a military parachuting injury and switched careers from police officer to cyclist. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1984 and the Norwegian National Time Trial Championship in 1990. After retiring from racing he became a cycling commentator on the Norwegian television station TV 2.