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Richard Virenque, nicknamed Richard Cœur de Lion, is a French sport cyclist born on 19 November 1969 in Casablanca, Morocco. A climbing specialist, he competed for the teams Festina, Polti, RMO, and Domo-Farm Frites, and took part in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics as well as the 2004 Tour de France.
Virenque has also been employed by Europe 1.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Ma verite
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Casablanca, Morocco
Known for
- Jan Ullrich - Der Gejagte — Self2023
- Patrick Lefevere. Godfather van de koers — Self2023
- Being Jan Ullrich — Self2022
- Fort Boyard, toujours plus fort ! — Self - Candidate (archive footage)2018
- Tout est Brisé2014
- Je suis une célébrité, sortez-moi de là ! — Richard2006
- Tour de France 2002 — Self2002
- Le Tour de France 2000 — Self2000
- Vivement dimanche — Self1998
- Fort Boyard — Self1990
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1813-05-22
- Active to
- 1883-02-13
Discography
- Siegfried. Fantaisie1927
- A Wagner Concert1944
- Tristan und Isolde1952
- Die Walkure, Act 31952
- Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg1952
- Die Walküre1955
- Prelude & Liebestod from "Tristan Und Isolde" / Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Funeral Music from "Die Gotterdammerung"1955
- Munch Conducts Wagner1957
- Tristan et Isolde (Extraits)1957
- Das Rheingold1959
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 21
- Total plays
- 46
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,349x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,236x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,650x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,252x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Full name
- Richard Virenque
- Nickname
- Ricco
- Born
- ( 1969-11-19 ) 19 November 1969 (age 56) , Casablanca , Morocco
- Height
- 1.79 m (5 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- Climbing specialist
- 1991 1992
- RMO
- 1993 1998
- Festina–Lotus
- 1999 2000
- Team Polti
- 2001 2002
- Domo–Farm Frites–Latexco
- 2003 2004
- Quick-Step–Davitamon
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Casablanca
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Employer
- Europe 1
- Languages spoken
- French
- Sport
- cycle sport
- Member of team
- Soudal Quick-Step
- Position played
- climbing specialist
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 65
- Image
- Richard VIRENQUE.jpg
- Height
- 179
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Richard Virenque
- date of birth
- 1969-11-19
- name in native language
- Richard Virenque
- nickname
- Richard Cœur de Lion
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Virenque (born 19 November 1969) is a retired French professional road racing cyclist. He was one of the most popular French riders with fans, known for his boyish personality and his long, lone attacks. He was a climber, best remembered for winning the King of the Mountains competition of the Tour de France a record seven times, and as one of the central figures in a widespread doping scandal in 1998, the Festina Affair.
Childhood
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