Laurent Fignon

Laurent Fignon, who died on Tuesday from cancer aged 50, was a French cyclist who erupted on to the professional sporting scene in the early 1980s, winning the first of his two successive Tours de France in 1983 aged only 22; six years later he was involved in the race's most dramatic final day, as the American rider Greg LeMond overhauled his 50-second lead to win by just eight seconds.