Pascal Jules

Pascal Jules
Personal information
Full name	Pascal Jules
Born	22 July 1961; La Garenne-Colombes, France
Died	25 October 1987 (aged 26)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1982–1985	Renault–Elf
1986	Seat–Orbea
1987	Caja Rural–Seat
Major wins
	1 stage 1984 Tour de France

Pascal Jules (22 July 1961, in La Garenne-Colombes – 25 October 1987, in Bernay) was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Career edit

Jules was a close friend of Laurent Fignon whom he rode with at Renault–Elf between 1982 and 1985. Jules won one stage in the 1984 Tour de France. With Fignon, Marc Madiot and Greg LeMond, Jules was part of a quartet in that Renault team who were keen to succeed the legendary Bernard Hinault. However, after being thrown back by injury and a fight with team director Cyrille Guimard, he joined Marino Lejarreta's Seat–Orbea team.

Death edit

He died in 1987 following a car crash in Normandy, after returning from a football match for a charitable association.

In his autobiography entitled Nous étions jeunes et insouciants ("We were young and carefree") Laurent Fignon remembers Pascal Jules by saying: "It was unsaid but there was a pact of kinship between us which was so strong, so inviolable, almost sacred, that it would last as long as life lasted. But some lives don't last that long."