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	UCI- Union Cycliste Internationale- Track World Championships- 1998 / Championnats du Monde- Piste- 1998
		Florian Rousseau continued the French party by taking his third men's sprint world title.
		However Rousseau was not beaten and gradually closed on Fiedler, cheered on by the partisan French crowd.
		Along the back straight of the final lap Fiedler tried to come past but Rousseau was too fast and the German was helpless as Rousseau powered to his third consecutive sprint world title.
	www.uci.ch /english/track/worlds_mondiale/wchamps_98/worlds_98_satP.htm (1499 words)

	www.cyclingnews.com presents the World Track Championships 2004
		Florian Rousseau has one of the most impressive palmares in all of track racing.
		Last time Rousseau was down under for a world championship, he showed himself to be unbeatable in the sprint against German Jens Fiedler.
		Certainly, Rousseau was humble when approached after his final race; felt it would be too emotional for him to be interviewed in front of the packed arena.
	www.cyclingnews.com /track/2004/WTC04?id=tales5rousseau (1135 words)

	Open des Nations
		The record, established by Florian Rousseau, is currently 12''75.
		Individual Sprint - Florian Rousseau, who defeated the Italian Roberto Chiappa in semi-final, will be challenged by his young fellow countryman Mikaël Bourgain, who rides for the Team France B. Mikaël, who was faster than the Spanish Villanueva, is the new French miracle : so young and so powerfull...
		The French woman Félicia Ballanger rode the two laps in 34''026, which is not enough to establish a new world record.
	www.letour.fr /stf/opennations/1999/us/course1.html (549 words)

	Depeches
		Florian Rousseau and Arnaud Tournant, who are the pillars of the 2000 olympic & World Champion sprint team, were the fastest in the flying lap (a 250 meters time-trial) : more than 70 km/h
		After their success (semi-finals), Laurent Gané and Florian Rousseau, the two speedest men of the world, hoped for victory.
		Are qualified fort the sprint second round Rousseau, Fiedler, Gané, Dublé, John, Buran, Thuet and Lepka.
	www.letour.fr /stf/opennations/2000/us/open2.html (178 words)

	Sydney 2000: Cycling
		Jens Fielder of Germany copped bronze in the kierin behind Rousseau and Niewand.
		He outpaced France's Florian Rousseau in the final at the Dunc Gray velodrome.
		In the Olympic sprint race, the French team of Laurent Gane, Florian Rousseau and Arnaud Tournant took the gold.
	www.npr.org /news/specials/olympics2000/cycling.track.html (652 words)

	Cycling: Nothstein's long wait pays off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nothstein was so far ahead in the second race of the best-of-three semifinals that he started pumping his fist several yards before the finish.
		Rousseau won the world championship in 1997 and 1998.
		Plenty of observers speculated that the loser of the first race would tank the second so both riders would be fresh for the medal races, but that didn't happen.
	www.post-gazette.com /olympics/20000921olycycling5.asp (832 words)

	Athens 2004, Olympic games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a country where road racing is king, Florian Rousseau has managed to put track cycling on the map.
		But now he faces a real test: after failing to qualify for the French team at the 2003 world championships, Rousseau had said in the past that he hoped to end his career on a high at the Olympics and go full circle after winning his first world title as a junior...
		And when Florian's not on the track, he's at the bottom of the ocean with a passion for deep-sea diving.
	eurosport.com /home/pages/v4/l0/s82/personnews_lng0_spo82_prs5229.shtml (165 words)

	BBC SPORT \| CYCLING \| Gold at last for Italy
		Florian Rousseau won the first Olympic keirin race in history to help forget his disappointment in Wednesday's men's sprint.
		The German strategy seemed to be to have Jan van Eijden block Nothstein and deny him a line to the front of the pack.
		The tactic angered the American, and as Rousseau was crossing the finish line some 20 metres ahead, Nothstein sat up on his bike and punched van Eijden in the arm.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics2000/cycling/935803.stm (475 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Sport - Hoy relishing race against old foes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tournant and Rousseau formed two-thirds of the French team that snatched the World Cup title from the Britons at the same venue four years ago, having also pipped them at the Olympics in Sydney.
		Arnaud Tournant and Florian Rousseau have something like 20 world titles between them which is a phenomenal achievement.
		"Rousseau is coming to the end of his career and is hoping to go out with a big bang in Athens and Tournant has something to prove after Sydney so this year is massive for him."
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=235872004 (368 words)

	Cycling - Eurosport - all sports, live, results, standing, football, formula 1, tennis, cycling, golf, motorsport, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		French track cycling legend Florian Rousseau prepared his adieus Monday, closing a storied career that counts 10 world championship and three Olympic titles.
		Rousseau, 30, will reportedly ride his last race in January at the Six Days of Stuttgart in Germany.
		Olympic kilometre champion in Atlanta in 1996 and double-gold winner in Sydney in 2000 (team pursuit and keirin), Rousseau's pistons lost some of their octane this summer, the Frenchman failing to qualify for the Athens Games.
	www.eurosport.co.uk /home/pages/v4/l2/s18/sport_lng2_spo18_sto662447.shtml (144 words)

	UCI- Union Cycliste Internationale- Track World Championships- 1998 / Championnats du Monde- Piste- 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the 200m qualification time trial for the sprint, defending champion Florian Rousseau of France was fastest in a time of 10.076 seconds.
		A good time in the qualification is important for the first round of sprints because the fastest riders of the 18 qualifiers race against the slowest.
		In the first round sprints, Florian Rousseau (France), Marty Nothstein (USA), Darryn Hill (Australia), Eyk Pokorny (Germany), Jens Fiedler (Germany), Laurent Gane (France), Arnaud Tournant (France), Viesturs Berzins (Latvia), and Jan Van Eijden (Germany) all won their sprints.
	www.uci.ch /english/track/worlds_mondiale/wchamps_98/worlds_98_friA.htm (370 words)

	British Cycling
		Manchester 2000, the last time Arnaud Tournant (centre) and Florian Rousseau (2nd from right) were in the UK to race on the boards of the National velodrome.
		In 2000, The French Olympic Sprint team (Laurence Gane, Arnaud Tournant and Florian Rousseau) came to Manchester and took the gold away from the Great Britain team who had to settle for silver for the second time that year in a major competition.
		Rousseau's credentials are equally as impressive with the Olympic Keirin Champion title to his name on top of the Team Sprint title and a silver in the Sprint.
	www.bcf.uk.com /news/2004/02_february/28_revolution3.shtml (382 words)

	Road and Track Bicycle Racing News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Florian Rousseau, triple champion on the Olympic Tracks (Kilo, Keirin and Olympic Sprint) announced his immediate retirement last night at the Nouméa velodrome on the last day of the Open de Nouvelle-Calédonie.
		Rousseau said he was happy to be retiring and that he had no regrets or bitterness.
		30 years old, Florian Rousseau won the Kilo in 1996 at Atlanta then the Olympic Sprint and Keirin in 2000 at Sydney.
	sixday.741.com /news.html (1549 words)

	www.cyclingnews.presents the Olympic Games 2000
		After losing to American Marty Nothstein in the sprint yesterday, Frenchman Florian Rousseau went one better to gain the gold in the men's keirin, the final track event of the 2000 Olympics.
		Although he didn't have a completely smooth run into the finals, Rousseau was fortunate to have compatriot Frederic Magne in the six rider final.
		The derny was taken by Neiwand from Rousseau, Van Eijden, Fiedler, Nothstein and Magne, and that's how it stayed for the five and a half laps of pacing.
	www.cyclingnews.com /results/2000/sep00/oly00/results/track6.shtml (1768 words)

	CNN/SI - Cycling - France cyclists claim third straight crown - Friday October 22, 1999 02:49 PM
		Posted: Friday October 22, 1999 02:49 PM Show 'em what you won: (From left) Laurent Gane, Arnaud Tournant and Florian Rousseau strike a victory pose.
		BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- Arnand Tournant, Florian Rousseau and Laurent Gane gave France a third successive Olympic sprint victory at the world track cycling championships on Thursday.
		Rousseau, a member of all three of France's world title-winning teams, said: "This result shows just how much strength in depth the French sprinters have.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cycling/news/1999/10/22/france_worlds (299 words)

	Track bike clipless pedal look cycle look cycle look cycle look b lookcycle-uk-uk-lookcycle.com. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The french champion who won track bike than track bike victories with LOOK is now consultant for the company and take parts to the development carbon bike the products.
		All the Olympic, World titles of Florian Rousseau, Félicia Ballanger, Arnaud Tournant were won using Look cycles.
		During the last Sydney Olympics, the French track team won six medals, of which four are track bike : a south african division 3 team managing by Michel Gros.
	www.lookcycle.com /v2/clipless_pedal/track_bike.html (352 words)

	Records for Collinelli, gold for Rousseau \| Outside Online
		A ``beginner's mistake'' saw his foot slip out of its strap immediately after he had started and he was forced to concede victory to France's Florian Rousseau.
		Rousseau, riding second to last, set an Olympic record of one minute 2.712 seconds.
		Rousseau, who was world champion at the distance in 1993 and 1994 but lost out to Kelly last year, spared no sympathy for the crestfallen Australian.
	outside.away.com /outside/events/olympics/cycling/collinelli.html (618 words)

	Active.com - Nothstein punches German after disappointing Keirin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Florian Rousseau of France won his second gold of the Sydney Olympics by taking the men's Keirin cycling race Thursday, an event that included a frustrated American rider punching a competitor.
		Rousseau, who already had one gold from the Atlanta Games in 1996, also has a silver here.
		As Rousseau was crossing the finish line some 20 yards (meters) ahead, narrowly beating Neiwand and Fiedler, Nothstein sat up on his bike and, wearing a frown, punched van Eijden in the arm.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=4892&sidebar=487&category=olympics_2000_cycling (488 words)

	USATODAY.com - Tournant wins third gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Arnaud Tournant won his third gold medal at the World Track Cycling Championships — and the 10th of his career — by leading a 1-2-3 French finish Saturday in the individual sprint.
		Rousseau beat Jens Fiedler of Germany for the bronze.
		Earlier at these championships, he won the 1-kilometer time trial and teamed with Gane and Rousseau to take gold in the team Olympic sprint.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/cycling/2001-09-29-world-track3.htm (269 words)

	Olympic track champ fails to make French world's team
		Olympic champion Florian Rousseau failed to qualify for the world track cycling championships when he finished in 11th place in the keirin event at the French trials in Hyeres on Saturday.
		Rousseau, who won Olympic gold in the keirin event at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia, had also missed out on selection for the sprint event when he finished fourth in the trials on Thursday.
		Only the first three were picked for the championships, which take place in Stuttgart, Germany, from July 30 to August 3.
	www.velonews.com /race/trk/articles/4493.0.html (115 words)

	PezCycling News - What's Cool In Pro Cycling
		French track ace Florian Rousseau has announced his plans for life after cycling.
		The multiple French, World and Olympic Champion has decided to end his career at the Olympic Games to be held in Athens 2004.
		Rousseau will begin work at the Institut National du Sport et de l'Education (INSEP) in Paris, France where he began his career at the age of 16.
	www.pezcyclingnews.com /?pg=fullstory&id=1840 (402 words)

	American Veenstra-Mirabella loses in a close race
		France won the gold medal in the Olympic sprint, using an all-star lineup in standout riders Laurent Gane, Florian Rousseau and Arnaud Tournant to finish the three-lap event in 44.233 seconds.
		4, France (Laurent Gane; Florian Rousseau; Arnaud Tournant), 44.302, (F1), def.
		France (Laurent Gane; Florian Rousseau; Arnaud Tournant), 44.233, def.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesCycling/sep17_ame.html (867 words)

	Frenchman Wins Cycling Gold, Australian Favorite in Mishap; American 2nd
		As the 24-year-old Australian rode slowly around the track in a lap of mourning, 22-year-old Florian Rousseau of France did not know what to think.
		If Kelly was out, Rousseau would be the gold medalist, Erin Hartwell of Indianapolis the silver medalist and 20-year-old Takanobu Jumonji of Japan the bronze.
		Instead, they saw Rousseau win in 1:02.712, an Olympic record, and they saw Kelly in tears.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/0725/oly-cyc-men-art.html (617 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Nothstein is denied in quest for second medal \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		The gold medal went to Florian Rousseau of France.
		And from there, van Eijden's job was to block the American to ensure a medal for Fiedler.
		As Rousseau was crossing the finish line some 20 yards ahead, narrowly beating Neiwand and Fiedler, Nothstein sat up on his bike and wearing a frown he punched van Eijden in the arm.
	deseretnews.com /dn/print/1,1442,195015573,00.html (542 words)

	Sydney 2000 Post Games Report
		The keirin was developed in Japan, and is notorious for the jostling that occurs just prior to the derny-pacer leaving the track, two and a half laps from the finish.
		With 50 m to go Neiwand led on the bend and looked certain to hold off the challenges of Rousseau and Fiedler, but Rousseau, with exquisite timing, surged past him on the line to win by the narrowest of margins, Fiedler finishing a close third.
		Each exemplified one or more of the defining characteristics of cycling, such as the raw speed of Marty Nothstein, the precision of the German pursuit team, the split second judgement of Felicia Ballanger, the timing of Florian Rousseau, and the will to win of Leontien Zijlaard.
	www.gamesinfo.com.au /postgames/en/pg002952.htm (646 words)

	deseretnews.com \| American cyclist brings home gold
		Nothstein beat Florian Rousseau of France 2-0 in the finals.
		It was a workmanlike performance by Nothstein, who didn't show much emotion until he pumped his fist in victory after blowing past Rousseau on the decisive second race in the best-of-3 format.
		He yelled in joy as he crossed the finish line while his coach, Gil Hatton, leaped on the track's skirt as the Australian crowd cheered.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,195015327,00.html (316 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Frustration mounts after American blocked
		The Keirin gold medal went to Florian Rousseau of France.
		The strongest rider this week was Nothstein, who had the fastest qualifying time in the sprint and then powered his way to his gold medal by blowing past Fiedler in the sprint semifinals and Rousseau in the finals.
		In the Keirin, he even made an extra ride through the repecharge, the event's version of a loser's bracket.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/0921/763338.html (756 words)

	Track world's: More medals for France and a violent keirin finale
		The other four finalists - Jens Fiedler, Jobie Dajka, Pavel Buran and Florian Rousseau - were lying in a tangle of bikes and bodies on the back straight.
		Fiedler ran the final 125 meters carrying his bike to become possibly the first track cyclist to win a world bronze medal on foot.
		France's Rousseau somersaulted from the top to the bottom of the banking and was carried off on a stretcher.
	www.velonews.com /race/trk/articles/1507.0.html (421 words)

	Working on your sprint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Endurance riders on the other hand start off with a predominance of Type I 'red slow-twitch' fibres which can 'fire' repeatedly without fatiguing.
		So if you've got mostly Type II, you'll have a hell of a kick for 200 metres, but may get shelled out long before the finish: you're Florian Rousseau.
		Mostly Type I (70%) and you can go on for ever at one pace, but acceleration may be a bit sluggish: you're Miguel Indurain.
	www.lvrc.org /rs11ga.htm (1031 words)

	British Cycling
		Florian Rousseau France ELITE 10KM POINTS RACE 1.
		Arnaud Tournant France 46.182 Florian Rousseau France Gregory Bauge France bt Matt Crampton Sportcity Velo 49.712 Matthew Haynes City of Edinburgh Richard Morton Yasumitsu Schlapp REVOLUTION KEIRIN 1.
		Florian Rousseau France ELITE 10KM SCRATCH RACE 1.
	www.bcf.uk.com /results/2004/03_march/04_revolution.shtml (279 words)

	Aussie cyclists eye gold - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In other Australian success on the track, sprinters Sean Eadie and Ryan Bayley made it through to the second round of the match sprint.
		Eadie beat France's Mickael Bourgain in the first round, while Bayley accounted for Bourgain's compatriot Florian Rousseau.
		But only one of the Australian's will make it through to the next stage, with the pair drawn to meet each other in the second round.
	www.smh.com.au - !http: //www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/29/1085641759501.html (323 words)

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