From Cycling, Sept. 9, 1967:
“Nine years’ professional sprint domination by the Italian school of sprinting came to an ignominious end at Amsterdam when young Patrick Sercu, the confident Belgian lad from Roeslare, who told Cycling three years ago that he would stay at the top for 20 years, won his first professional world championship from Giuseppe Beghetto in the most convincing manner.”
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