Ludo Delcroix

Ludo Delcroix is a Belgian former professional road cyclist, born on 28 October 1950. He built his reputation as an amateur in Belgium, which earned him a place in the Belgian team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where he rode the team time trial. The Belgian quartet finished fourth after the Dutch team, which had come third, was disqualified over a doping test, and no bronze medal was awarded. Delcroix turned professional in 1973 and often rode as a domestique for the Belgian star Eddy Merckx. Between 1973 and 1981 he rode eight editions of the Tour de France and three of the Giro d'Italia, and he won the ninth stage of the 1979 Tour de France, on a flat finish in Roubaix.