Anquetil is dead, of cancer, and no one remembers him more fondly than Poulidor. On Anquetil's death bed the two old rivals spoke. 'He said to me that the cancer was so agonisingly painful it was as bad as racing up the Puy de Dome all day, every hour of the day. He then said, I will never forget it, "My friend, you will come second to me once again". It was heartbreaking for me to hear that.'
from "Summit or Nothing" by John Carlin
Aldo Ross
Blue Ball, Ohio