Lomme Driessens

"His teamleader Lomme Driessens disagreed his strategy but claimed
afterwards that his coaching had helped him to this victory."

http://www.rvv.be/2006/eng/historiek/merckx.html

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RIP. Died today, age 94.

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Belgian legend in car accident
87 year-old Belgian cycling legend, Lomme Driessens crashed his car on
Friday night at 11.25 pm. He was travelling on the Molenheidebaan in
Boortmeerbeek (Belgium) when his car hit a truck. Driessens was seriously
wounded and went to the hospital in Mechelen. A spokesman for the hospital
said that there was no threat to his life, but he was being kept under close
observation.

Driessens will be 88 on May 4 and was a team director of the most famous
Belgian cyclists, such as Rik Van Steenbergen, Rik Van Looy, Eddy Merckx and
Freddy Maertens, meaning that he was one of the most successful team
directors of all time.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/results/2000/apr00/apr16news.shtml

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http://www.hln.be/hlns/cache/det/art_221860.html

Babel Fish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/) Translation of the above
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Wielerlegende heavy Driessens (94) have vannacht died in the hospital. Heavy
Driessens incurred a month suffered still double a jaw leg crack at a fall
at him thuis. Moreover he got a heavy pneumonia.

Heavy was already tijdje on the sukkel. The legendary sport driver of others
Fausto Coppi, Eddy Merckx and Freddy Maertens in April in Hofstade a broken
pulse and voorarm had at home incurred. Three years suffered Driessens lay
also already once long in the hospital, after he was collided with its car
flat for its drive.

He vanop told on 18 May are hospital bed in the Vilvoordse Jan
Portaelziekenhuis still: It has quickly happened all. I was at home a beetje
gymnastics for doing and all of a sudden, patat, I lay there on the ground.
My two jaw legs break and of and vanachter a breach in my head. I do not
want to a home. But provisionally work still much is. Thus am not possible I
also to house. But I am a sportsman. I do not give up zomaar.

The last gloriemoment of heavy date of by the end of august previous year.
Never earlier someone had succeeded in Eddy Merckx, Rik Van Looy, Freddy
Maertens and Roger getting the Vlaeminck. That succeeded then, however, in
Boortmeerbeek: on the occasion of the revealing of an udder picture for
heavy to the municipal sport hall.

Driessens lived already ten year in the vlaams-Brabantse municipality and in
1999, were exclaimed there to ereburger. For the second world war heavy
himself cyclist was. He impressive palm ares collected as a sport driver. To
be renners became seven times world champion, tienmaal Belgian champion and
were there seven victories in the round of France. Heavy it was received at
the king house and the pope granted him audience.

The funeral mass of heavy Driessens has Thursday 22 June at 11.00 in the
church of Vilvoorde. The teraardebestelling happens in ship Laeken.

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