Hi, Paul---
Thanks for the post. While I don't have any info for you, I'm glad Jimmy is still with us, and I thought I would let some of my fellow Yanks know (if they didn't already), that Jimmy was a famous, wild-haired disc jockey in Britain who hosted numerous radio and live programmes and interviewed the Beatles on many occasions. I hadn't known he was also a serious cyclist. Makes him all the dearer! And, rats---I just returned my interlibrary loan book on the History of the Tour of Britain to the Library of Congress...didn't notice him mentioned, but I wasn't specifically looking for him, either.
Cheers,
Peter Jourdain
Whitewater, Wisconsin USA
> It is funny how some discussions - even accidental
> lead us back to
> cycling. Last night my other half and I were
> reminiscing about old
> British Televison programs, music and TV
> personalities. Sir Jimmy
> Saville came up in the conversation. [edit...] There
was a
> note there saying that he had been a
> semi-professional cyclist in the
> early 50s and had raced in the Tour of Britain in
> 1951 - there is no
> further info. Any of the Brits know anything more?
>
[edit]...
> Paul B. Williams,
> Ottawa, On, Canada
>
>
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