Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Tom Simpson

Tom Simpson

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 5, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 10:08, 22 August 2015 (UTC)



Tom Simpson (1937–1967) was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He began his career track cycling, specializing in pursuit races. In this discipline he won a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. In 1959 Simpson moved to France and turned professional in road racing. In the 1962 Tour de France he became the first British rider to wear the yellow jersey. In 1965 he became Britain's first world road race champion. He won three "monument" classic races: the 1961 Tour of Flanders, the 1964 Milan–San Remo and the 1965 Giro di Lombardia. At the 1967 Tour de France, he collapsed and died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux. He was 29 years old. The post-mortem examination found that he had mixed amphetamines and alcohol. He was known to have taken performance-enhancing drugs during his career, when no doping controls existed. Despite this, he is held in high esteem by many cyclists for his character and will to win.
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 * Main editors: BaldBoris
 * Promoted: 8 July 2015
 * Reasons for nomination: 50th anniversary of him becoming world champion
 * Support as nominator. BaldBoris 23:27, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support really interesting read, it's been good to see all of the work put into the article finally rewarded with FA status, I would love to see this on the front page as an honour to his world championship win! XyZAn (talk) 13:55, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. One of only two British cycling world champions, and would be good to see one of the few FA-Class cycling articles on the main page on an important anniversary of Simpson's win. Craig  (talk)  21:45, 24 July 2015 (UTC)