Laurent Jalabert

The awfully famous crash of Jalabert in Armentieres during the 1994 Tour de France was ironically the making of him as a super-champion. Until then, Jalabert had been judged in the mould of a sprinter - and he himself had not seen far beyond that role... The crash changed all that and Jalabert came back with a vengeance, with nothing to lose, and with a realisation that sprinting was also too dangerous to pursue when there might be bigger ambitions to aim at...