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Zoetemelk hit by car 40 years after winning Tour de France

| September 20, 2020 11:27 AM

PARIS (AP) — The 1980 Tour de France champion Joop Zoetemelk was hit by a car while riding his bike on Sunday, and hospitalized with leg and arm fractures, the French press reported.

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