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Former Belgian racer and team manager Walter Godefroot dies at 82

GHENT, BELGIUM - JUNE 30: Start / Walter Godefroot of Belgium ExPro-cyclist / Ghent City / during the 120th Belgian Road Championship 2019 - Individual Road Race - Elite Men a 223,8km race from Ghent to Ghent / #BKgent / @Stadgent / @BELCycling / on June 30, 2019 in Ghent, Belgium. (Photo by Luc Claessen/Getty Images).

Former racer and team manager Walter Godefroot has died at the age of 82 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.

Godefroot, who hailed from Gent in Belgium, was a 10-time Tour de France stage winner during a racing career which ran from 1965 to 1979. He also won the Tour's points classification in 1970 and took wins at the Tour of Flanders (twice), Paris-Roubaix, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

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