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Frank Vandenbroucke (cyclist)
Frank Vandenbroucke (6 November 1974 – 12 October 2009), was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist. He was the great hope of Belgian cycling in the 1990s but a remarkable talent which appeared in his adolescence in athletics and then in cycle racing dissipated in a succession of drugs problems, rows with teams, suicide attempts and finally being disowned by the cycling world.〔Belgique - Vandenbroucke dément être impliqué dans une affaire de drogue 29 December 20098 http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=800002&sid=8929615&cKey=1230573371000〕 His former wife described him as a cocaine addict.〔〔"Bad Boy Vandenbroucke in further hot water," AFP, 2 April 2008〕 He is known to have had numerous drug and family problems, and to have attempted suicide. However, VDB claimed in an interview with ProCycling's Daniel Friebe three weeks before his death to have made a near-complete recovery from the emotional issues that plagued him throughout his career. Vandenbroucke told Friebe, "I simply realise that the last year and a half have been fantastic for me."〔VDB: The Final Interview http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/frank-vandenbroucke-the-final-interview〕 Nevertheless, he died of a pulmonary embolism in October 2009.
==Background==
Frank Vandenbroucke was born in Mouscron〔http://www.siteducyclisme.net/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=7417〕 and grew up in Ploegsteert, a village in the French-speaking region of Belgium (with facilities for Dutch speakers). In 1978, when he was four and cycling in the village square, he was knocked over by the driver of a rally car.〔Procycling, UK, undated cutting〕 His mother said her son didn't cry until doctors cut his cycling shorts. The collision led to four operations on his right knee and repeated problems later in life.
Vandenbroucke first tried athletics, joining the Entente Athlétique Hainaut. In 1986 he became a regional schoolboy champion.〔Cameron et Frank Vandenbroucke: bon sang ne sait mentir!, 12 February 2008, http://blogs.sudpresse.be/sports/2008/02/12/cameron-et-frank-vandenbroucke-bon-sang-ne-sait-mentir/〕〔Vandenbroucke's elder daughter, Cameron, joined the same club and won the Hainaut cyclo-cross championship and then the Walloon cyclo-cross championship in the class for under-10s, in 2008〕 He took out a cycling licence with the club in 1989 and won a race at Brakel. An unnamed acquaintance told the Belgian journalist Philippe van Holle:
"It must have been when I was about 19 or 20 and went out training with a friend on the Belgian borders. As we spun along, out of nowhere this skinny blond kid was on our back wheel. He looked about 14. He was still there 15 minutes later, so we picked up speed. He just sat there, so we picked up the pace again. It was still no problem for him. I looked over my shoulder and he gave me a half-mocking, half-friendly grin. In the end, we went as hard as we could to try to get rid of him and teach the little brat a lesson, because by now he was getting a bit too cocky for our tastes. But whatever we did, he still hung on. After about an hour, we came into a village called Ploegsteert, at which point he came alongside with real arrogance and said 'OK, I'm back home now, so 'bye. By the way, I'm Frank Vandenbroucke.' Neither of us had ever met a kid like him."〔
In 1991, when he was 17, Vandenbroucke won the national beginners () road championship at Halanzy. He came third in the world junior road championship in Athens in 1992.
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