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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/sports/cycling/samuel-abt-dead.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawLkOmxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE4UG5MMlYyR28wSkhUaWx6AR40xG_kyFcgNcqTOZBll5CvhoiZDTZRlP8vuXd006gPKVJmPZjulTb8FFSong_aem_rAaQiOKk_aoCVN6EKnwVCw An authority on cycling, he wrote about the elite race for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, bringing wider attention to it. By Richard Sandomir July 13, 2025 Samuel Abt, an erudite writer who covered the Tour de France for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune in stage-by-stage dispatches for more than 30 years, died on Friday in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris . He was 91. His son, John, confirmed the death, in a hospital, on the day of the seventh stage of this year’s Tour . Mr. Abt was an editor at The International Herald Tribune (now The International New York Times ), based in Paris, when he started covering the Tour in 1977 . At the outset, he is believed to have been the only North American writing regularly about i...

https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-racing/commentary-meeting-the-donald-at-the-tour-de-trump/?scope=anon For part of an afternoon back in 1989, I belonged to the inner circle of Donald Trump. Updated Apr 3, 2020 Samuel Abt Photo: Gary Newkirk Editors’ Note: Author Samuel Abt was a long-time sports journalist and columnist for the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. He covered the Tour de France and other professional cycling events for more than 30 years. A resident of the Paris area, Abt retired several years ago. Below, he recounts an encounter he had with Donald Trump at the inaugural Tour de Trump bicycle race. For part of an afternoon back in 1989, I belonged to the inner circle of Donald Trump. The reason was an erroneous remark I made before the start of the inaugural Tour de Trump, the 10-stage, 837-mile race on the East Coast, which he was bankrolling for $750,000. Years later, the Tour de Trump became the Tour du Pont, but back in 1989, it was still ...