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    Q&A Johan Museeuw

    May 19, 2021 4 minutes
    Words JOSEPH ROBINSON
    Photography DANNY BIRD

    Johan Museeuw

    Age 55

    Nationality Belgian

    Honours include…

    World Road Race Championships 1996 UCI Road World Cup 1995, 1996

    National Road Race Championships 1992, 1996

    Tour of Flanders 1993, 1995, 1998

    Paris-Roubaix 1996, 2000, 2002

    Cyclist: Can you remember the day you were first crowned the Lion of Flanders?

    Johan Museeuw: Yes I can. After I won the Tour of Flanders in 1995, the Belgian commentator Michel Wuyts christened me the ‘Lion of Flanders’ live on the television and it stuck ever since.

    Even now if I get a text from my old boss

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