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    Goddet. Lévitan is credited with looking after the financial side of the Tour while Goddet concentrated on the sporting aspect, but in the end Lévitan was...
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  • sports editor, Félix Lévitan, should join Goddet for the Tour. The two worked together—with Goddet running the sporting side, and Lévitan the financial...
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  • Dan Levitan, American businessman Félix Lévitan (1911–2007), Tour de France organiser Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), Russian painter Israel Levitan (1912–1982)...
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    condition was that his own cycling reporter, Félix Lévitan, should share organisation of the Tour. Lévitan slowly took over from Goddet, especially in...
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    national team format was used in 1967 Tour de France after tour organiser Félix Lévitan believed the team sponsors were behind the riders strike in the previous...
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    night, Hinault and Guimard told the race organisers, Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan, that he would abandon the race, while still in the lead. He left the...
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    enhance the visibility of the jersey in the peloton. The Tour's organizer Félix Lévitan decided to use the jersey used by the cyclist Henri Lemoine as a tribute...
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    association of sports writers, in 1973 when at the 37th Congress in London Félix Lévitan and Antoine Herbauts passed over the leadership to Great Britain, Frank...
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  • oil giant. He first competed in the Tour in 1981, when the organiser, Félix Lévitan, encouraged him to wear not his team jersey but a Stars and Stripes...
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    Jean Leulliot, remembered a dinner organised by Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan, the organisers of the Tour de France, for the race's former winners...
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    team format was used in the 1967 Tour de France after tour organiser, Félix Lévitan, believed the team sponsors were behind the riders' strike in the previous...
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    tube and so the test would go ahead as normal. At 8pm, the organiser, Félix Lévitan, told the press that the UCI had ruled that Pollentier would be fined...
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    the heyday of Eddy Merckx, at the Vélodrome de Vincennes. In 1974, Félix Lévitan, co-director of the Tour, and reporter Yves Mourousi suggested a finish...
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    said, were the two Italian teams. The organisers, Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan, went to his hotel, the Hôtel de France, in Lourdes, to dissuade him...
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  • Barbara Gittings, 74, American gay rights campaigner, breast cancer. Félix Lévitan, 95, French sports journalist and organiser. Bob Oksner, 90, American...
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    Naquet-Radiguet, who had taken over the position from Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan in May 1987. Naquet-Radiguet was unpopular in France and was replaced...
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    measure widely interpreted[citation needed] as revenge by the organiser, Félix Lévitan, on sponsors he thought had provoked a strike against drug tests the...
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    reached an agreement. Belgian-based Flandria–Mars and Tour co-organiser Félix Lévitan were in disagreements over the team's participation and there was speculation...
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    180 kilometres (110 mi) in 1986.[failed verification] Tour director Félix Lévitan felt after the 1985 Tour de France that the race had been too easy and...
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    Henri Desgrange 1936–1961: Jacques Goddet 1962–1986: Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan 1987: Jean-François Naquet-Radiguet 1988: Xavier Louy 1989–2006: Jean-Marie...
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    de France was unveiled on 8 October 1985 by both Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan. The race was pushed back a week from its normal date in order to prevent...
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    the land of the Tour de France, where organisers Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan had great political strength, was different. Géminiani sold his team...
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  • Colombey-les-deux-Églises, where he lived. The organisers, Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan asked the national champion, Henry Anglade, if the riders would be willing...
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  • just three seconds slower than Van Springel. Tour de France organizer Félix Lévitan and the Mars-Flandria were in disagreements over the team's participation...
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    Colombey-les-deux-Églises, where he lived. The organisers, Jacques Goddet and Félix Lévitan asked the French national champion, Henry Anglade, if the riders would...
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  • each with 10 cyclists, for a total of 170, a new record. Tour director Félix Lévitan suggested to reduce the number of cyclists by starting with teams of...
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  • condition was that his own cycling reporter, Félix Lévitan, should share organisation of the Tour. Lévitan slowly took over from Goddet, especially in...
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    the route was still changed: after the fifth stage, tour organiser Félix Lévitan decided to change the first 20 kilometres (12 mi) of the stage, to avoid...
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    Badger's return to Form". Cycling Revealed. Retrieved 17 September 2011. "Félix Lévitan: niet blij met bemoeizucht UCI Meer tumult in de Ronde van Frankrijk"...
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    each with 10 cyclists, for a total of 170, a new record. Tour director Félix Lévitan suggested to reduce the number of cyclists by starting with teams of...
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