Cycling world pays tribute to Belgian cycling legend Patrick Sercu

Sercu died at the age of 74 on Friday

Patrick Sercu (Tim De Waele/Getty Images)

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Tributes have poured in from across the cycling world for Belgian track cycling legend Patrick Sercu, who died on Friday at the age of 74.

Sercu won 1,206 races on the track and is considered the greatest track cyclist of the past century. He won Olympic gold in the 1km time trial at the 1964 Tokyo Games and won three track world championship titles throughout the sixties.

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