Christophe Dupouey
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Born | 8 August 1968 Tarbes, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 4 February 2009 Tarbes, France | (aged 40)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Mountain bike Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christophe Dupouey (8 August 1968 – 4 February 2009) was a French
UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships. Dupouey also competed in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, placing 4th in Atlanta.[1]
In 2006 he was given a suspended three-month prison sentence for participating in a trafficking network for "pot belge", a mix of cocaine, caffeine, pain killers, sometimes amphetamines and heroin.[2]
Dupouey committed suicide on 4 February 2009 at the age of 40.[3]
References
- ^ Christophe Dupouey bio at sports-reference.com
- ^ "Christophe Dupouey Commits Suicide - BikeRadar". Archived from the original on 2009-02-09. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
- ^ Mountain bike 1998 World Champion Dupouey commits suicide Archived 2009-03-15 at the Wayback Machine