Pascal Jules

Pascal Jules
Personal information
Full name	Pascal Jules
Born	22 July 1961; La Garenne-Colombes, France
Died	25 October 1987 (aged 26)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1982	Rauler
1983-1986	Renault-Elf
1986	Seat-Orbea
1987	Caja Rural-Seat
Major wins
	1 stage 1984 Tour de France

Pascal Jules (22 July 1961, in La Garenne-Colombes – 25 October 1987, in Bernay) was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Career

Jules was a close friend of Laurent Fignon whom he rode with at Renault-Elf between 1982 and 1985. Jules won one stage in the 1984 Tour de France. With Fignon, Marc Madiot and Greg LeMond, Jules was part of a quartet in that Renault team who were keen to succeed the legendary Bernard Hinault. However, after being thrown back by injury and a fight with team director Cyrille Guimard, he joined Marino Lejarreta's Seat-Orbea team.

Death

He died in 1987 following a car crash in Normandy, after returning from a football match for a charitable association.

In his autobiography entitled Nous étions jeunes et insouciants ("We were young and carefree") Laurent Fignon remembers Pascal Jules by saying: “It was unsaid but there was a pact of kinship between us which was so strong, so inviolable, almost sacred, that it would last as long as life lasted. But some lives don't last that long.”