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Frank Vandenbroucke – A Life In Words

Posted on 13 October 2009 by cosmo

Cyclingnews—at the time of his ascendency the only regularly updated online cycling resource—has a nice collection of photos cataloguing Frank Vandenbroucke’s career.

Lacking a photo archive to pull from, I Wordled together this grayscale text cloud from a variety of obits—in depth, brisk, mainstream, and cycling-specific—in an effort to capture a rider whose story was at turns glorious, miserable, mundane, and bizarre.

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(click through for full-size, sources)

thoughts on “Frank Vandenbroucke – A Life In Words”

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  2. sakura hasegawa says:
    18 October 2009 at 10:25 pm

    It’s sad what happened to him. He was the great hope of Belgian cycling and he was good in what he did, but personal and drug problems got in the way. It’s too bad he had to go so soon..

    Reply
  3. driver47 says:
    22 October 2009 at 4:35 pm

    And that darned grail-shaped beacon. ,

    Reply

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a headshot of Cosmo Catalano

Best known for his How The Race Was Won® video series, Cosmo Catalano began blogging about pro cycling from a bike shop in 2005. Between then and now, he's designed cycling infographics, built cycling web apps, and supplied cycling content to print and broadcast media, all in the name of backing up his near-endless criticism with proof that it can be done better. He complains about cycling on Twitter at @Cyclocosm.

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