Christophe Dupouey dies

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by Sprinter on Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:36 pm

It's been reported that Christophe Dupouey has commited suicide:

http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme/breves20 ... icide.html
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by Powerful Pete on Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:39 pm

Second high profile cyclist I hear about today. Again, very, very sad.

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by synchronicity on Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:04 pm

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by nolimit on Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:05 am

This guy was one of my hero's when I was a junior mountain biker. I remember him and Little Mig on the Sunn team just dominating the world cups. It didn't even bother me when I heard about the drugs. Just watching them anyone could tell. The way Christophe Dupouey raced was just awesome. I hope someone in the press has some good things to say about him.
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by OJ on Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:53 pm

nolimit wrote:This guy was one of my hero's when I was a junior mountain biker. I remember him and Little Mig on the Sunn team just dominating the world cups. It didn't even bother me when I heard about the drugs. Just watching them anyone could tell. The way Christophe Dupouey raced was just awesome. I hope someone in the press has some good things to say about him.

I raced against him in road races in 2001. Obviously I got my ass kicked though. He was a super strong rides and I had an idea that he wasn't clean, but he wasn't the only non-clean rider at that time by no means. It was only later, when I heard that he and Roux brothers were key figures in dope trade in that part of the world.

Fall from glory was hard for him for sure and I can only imagine all the hypocrite cycling community spitting on him. Sucks...
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by Danton on Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:00 pm

OJ wrote:I raced against him in road races in 2001. Obviously I got my ass kicked though. He was a super strong rides and I had an idea that he wasn't clean, but he wasn't the only non-clean rider at that time by no means. It was only later, when I heard that he and Roux brothers were key figures in dope trade in that part of the world.

Fall from glory was hard for him for sure and I can only imagine all the hypocrite cycling community spitting on him. Sucks...


I'm in an identical position, I was racing with him years ago and my feelings on him are the same and hope his family cope with the loss. His funeral is tomorrow.
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