Cycling mourns the death of Rick Van Looythe first to win all five Monumento races, then followed by Merckx and De Vlaeminck. The Belgian, sprinter and classics specialist, known as the Emperor of Herentalshe was 90 years old: the day after tomorrow it would have been 91. World road champion in 1960 (Sachsenring) and in 1961 (Bern), between the 1950s and 1960s he won the Parigi-Roubaix (1961, 1962, 1965), twice the Tour of Flanders (1959, 1962), once the Milan-Sanremo (1958), the Giro di Lombardia (1959) and the Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1961), to which he added the original classics: Walloon ArrowParis-Tour e Paris-Brussels (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
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Nicknamed the Emperor of Herentalsthe Belgian was about to turn 91. One of the giants in the history of cycling passed away on the night between Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th December, Rick Van Looy. (SpazioCiclismo)
Cycling loses one of its great champions. In fact, he passed away at the age of 90 Rick van LooyBelgian runner, who was among the greatest of the last century. (Sky Sport)
Active between the ’50s and ’60s, the “Emperor of Herentals”, as he was nicknamed, also became a double world champion, achieving one of the two world championship triumphs in Bern in 1961. The cycling world mourns the death of the Belgian Rick Van Looy (rsi.ch)
International cycling says goodbye to one of the greatest one-day classic specialists, Rick Van Looy. (Sport Mediaset)
He died this morning Rick Van Looyone of the strongest classics riders of all time. The news comes from his native Belgium, where he was much loved. The day after tomorrow he would have turned 91. Nicknamed “The Emperor of Herentals”, Van Looy was the first rider in history to win at least once all five races which over time have been defined as the monument classics: one Milan-Sanremo (1958), a Giro di Lombardy (1959), a Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1961), two Ronde van Vlaanderen (1959, 1962) and three Paris Roubaix (1961, 1962, 1965). (Cicloweb.it)
He was head of the legendary Red Guard, made up of his Faema followers, who were always – or almost always, as we will see – faithful to him. Goodbye Rick Van Looygoodbye Emperor of Herentals. (the Republic)
