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Originally Posted by non-fixie
It's Freddy Maertens, possibly the strongest pair of legs ever in the peloton. Just to give you an idea: he won the 1977 Vuelta a Espaņa by winning 13 of the 19 stages.

Thanks for that. Quite a record he had!

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