# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-virot
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:36:29.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-virot"
name: "Alex Virot"
slug: "alex-virot"
description: "Alexandre Virot was a French sports journalist, who was active from the 1920s until his death in 1957. He won a silver medal in painting at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Virot died in a motorcycle accident whilst covering the 1957 Tour de France, making him the only journalist to have been killed whilst covering the Tour."
tagline: "French journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Le_Miroir_1939_-_Antonin_Magne_avec_Georges_Briquet_et_Alex_Virot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1890-02-10"
deathDate: "1957-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.93
  momentum:             4.350961538461539
  historical:           4.80486
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Virot"
    title: "Alex Virot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "آلکس ویرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Virot"
    title: "Alex Virot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Virot"
    title: "Alex Virot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%9A%E5%8E%86%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E7%BB%B4%E7%BD%97"
    title: "亚历克斯·维罗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2833047"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump