Freddy Maertens is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist who was twice world road race champion. His career swung between winning more than fifty races in a season and winning almost none, and his life has been marked by debt and alcoholism, including a tax debt that took him more than twenty years to pay. At one point early in his career, between the 1976 Tour de France and the 1977 Giro d'Italia, he won 28 of the 60 Grand Tour stages he entered before abandoning the Giro with an injury on stage 8b. In under a calendar year he achieved eight Tour stage wins, thirteen Vuelta stage wins and seven Giro stage wins.
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is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist
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(born 13 February 1952)
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His life has been marked by debt and alcoholism.
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who was twice world road race champion
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is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist
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He achieved eight Tour stage wins
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