Former Tour de France stage winner and Belgian champion Serge Baguet has died at the age of 47 after suffering from cancer.
Baguet was diagnosed with the disease in late 2014 after feeling severe abdominal pain on a bike ride. He was taken to hospital for surgery on an inflamed diverticulum, with doctors removing a piece of his intestine and later discovering a malignant tumour.
Six sessions of chemotherapy followed, and though it looked like his recovery was going well, Baguet acknowledged his life would never be the same. "I try to remain hopeful, I've always been a fighter. Yet I live with fear every day," he told Sporza at the time.
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Those fears were ultimately borne out as the disease returned in 2016, and Baguet passed away at his home in Sint-Lievens-Houtem on Thursday morning.
Baguet’s career was a curious, two-part affair, parenthesized by four years working as a roofer.
He turned pro in 1991 with the Lotto team, and raced with the Vlaanderen 2002 team in 1996, but he was becoming disillusioned and hung up the wheels for the first time to work for his father-in-law.
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