Beloved Belgian cycling commentator about loss of daughter Debbie: ‘I don’t want to be pathetic at all, damn it’

WielerGek Vlaanderen (and partly the Netherlands) looked at it with deep awe: how José De Cauwer reported for three weeks of the Tour, who had literally started the funeral of his oldest daughter Debbie for him. “Strong? No, it was just the easiest way,” says the beloved sports commentator who accepted the loss of his child, conversation with HLN. “You can’t do anything else.”

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