Rik Van Looy, one of greatest one-day cyclists, dies at 90
FILE - Belgian cyclist Rik van Looy, center, on the winner's podium in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, West Germany, August 14, 1960. (AP Photo, File)[ASSOCIATED PRESS]
BRUSSELS (AP) — Rik Van Looy, one of the greatest one-day cyclists who won two world championships as well as eight “monument” classics, has died. He was 90. For a decade starting in the late 1950s, he was the unchallenged No. 1 star in Belgium before he had to give way to the rise of Eddy Merckx. Among the monument classics, he won Paris-Roubaix three times, the Ronde of Flanders twice and Milan San Remo, the Tour of Lombardy and Liege-Bastogne-Liege once.
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