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| | Herald Sun: Rise and falls of Tour hero [30jun05] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Speed, danger and heroism are all part of the attraction, to riders and the race's vast audience alike. |
 | | The riders are fatalistic about it, although not many would go as far as Jose Meiffret, who carried a note, Coyle says, as he attempted a world speed record in 1962. |
 | | It read: "In case of fatal accident, I beg spectators not to feel sorry for me. I am a poor man, an orphan since the age of 11 and I have suffered much. |
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