From Cycling, Sept 9, 1967:
“FOR the third time in five years a Russian quartet came home victorious in the team pursuit, this time with the most convincing win one could possibly expect.
They smashed the Italians’ morale, rhythm, timing, everything, with a powerhouse display in the final– they even finished all four of their team together, 4-34.89, not the fastest of the series, but they already had had that from the qualifying round anyway.”
The sidebar discusses the disqualification of Ron Baensch (one of the riders in this photo) for using ephedrine. Ah, the days before EPO… One of the other riders disqualifed was Charly Grosskost, who “is the rider who was thrown out of the Tour de l’Avenir after being found in a drugged state by the side of the road in the Tour two years ago.”
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