“Walter Godefroot has cycled a wonderful record together,” responded 79-year-old Leman. “The man showed an enormous willpower. Partly because of that he won large races such as the Tour of Flanders, Gent-Wevelgem and journeys in the Tour de France. When we were still cycling, it sometimes bumped. That was logical somewhere, because we each had our own interests to defend. We then also lived in a different spirit of the times now.
We didn’t see each other much lately, but if that was the case, then we could find it together. Walter Godefroot was a krak of a driver and after his active career as a cyclist he wrote a great story as a sports director at T-Mobile. It is again a monument that loses Belgian cycling with the death of Walter Godefroot, “he concluded.