Maarten Ducrot

Maarten Ducrot, born on 8 April 1958, is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer who later became a cycling reporter for Dutch television. He rode the Tour de France five times and finished it four times; in his first Tour, in 1985, he won the ninth stage and was given the combativity award after the race. He also competed in the team time trial at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He ended his professional career in 1991, worked as an organisation advisor, and from 2004 has reported on cycling for the television programme Studio Sport. He is the great-grandson of Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, and in 2000 he admitted on Dutch television that he had used banned substances.