Arthur Vincent Linton was a British road bicycle racer. He is best known for sharing victory in the Bordeaux-Paris road race in 1896 and for breaking the Welsh one-hour paced cycling record.
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Arthur Vincent Linton was a British road bicycle racer. He is best known for sharing victory in the Bordeaux-Paris road race in 1896 and for breaking the Welsh one-hour paced cycling record. His death just two months after the 1896 Bordeaux-Paris is steeped in controversy with some commentators speculating that his demise was caused by doping.
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deceased
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Lived 1868 to 1896 · aged 27
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