Patrice Sulpice

Patrice Sulpice (born July 5, 1974 in Aix-les-Bains ) is a former French track cyclist .

In 1993 Patrice Sulpice was third at the French track championships in Keirin , and second the following year. Together with Florian Rousseau and Hervé Thuet , he won the team sprint as well as the sprint and keirin runs of the first track cycling world cup in 1995 and led the rankings.

On September 22, 1995, at the World Railroad Championships in Bogotá , Sulpice, then 21 years old, had a serious fall during the last training session after he collided with another French driver, Frédéric Lancien . It took two hours to find a suitable hospital. During an operation, the Colombian surgeons received telephone support from the doctor from Sulpice in France. Since then, Patrice Sulpice has been paralyzed and has been in a wheelchair. After twelve years of legal battles, the French cycling federation Fédération Française de Cyclisme (FFC) was sentenced in 2007 to pay him 1.35 million euros in compensation for pain and suffering, which had far-reaching financial consequences for the association. As reasons for its decision, the court cited insufficient insurance for the driver by the French association and the inadequate coordination of training times on the track in Bogotá.

Patrice Sulpice dealt with his fate in the book Etre ou ne pas être, j'ai choisi (French = to be or not to be, I have chosen ) , published in 2002 .

Remarks

Web links

Patrice Sulpice in the Radsportseiten.net database

Patrice Sulpice's website (French)

personal data
SURNAME	Sulpice, Patrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	5th July 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aix-les-Bains

[1] Le Dauphiné v. March 12, 2008 (PDF; 998 kB)

[2] Tour de France starters are still waiting for prize money on radsport-news.com v. April 3, 2008

[3] French Cycling Federation may get into financial trouble on cyclingnews.com v. June 27, 2007 (French)