Maurice Brocco
Maurice Brocco ( born January 28, 1885 in Fismes, † June 26, 1965 in Mûrs - Erigné ) was a French cyclist.
1907 occupied Maurice Brocco, a trained butcher, at the track world championships in Paris in third place in the Stayers race of amateurs. In the same year he finished third in the French championship road race in the amateurs. Then he stepped over to the pros and won in 1908 the first stage of the Grand Prix Wolber. In 1910 he became a French vice-champion in the road race, behind Émile Georget and before Lucien Petit- Breton and won Paris -Brussels. In 1912 he set a new hour record when he drove 51.378 km behind the pacemaker. In the same year he was third in the Tour of Lombardy, the year after second.
By 1914, the versatile Brocco started six times in the Tour de France, but only reached at his last start in Paris and was overall 23 In 1911, he won a stage. In order to participate in this tour, and winning the stage is shrouded in numerous anecdotes. After Brocco was clear that he could not decide for the overall standings, he offered the Tour de France winner of 1909, François Faber, his services as pacemakers in, presumably for a fee. As noticed this tour boss Henri Desgrange, he disqualified Brocco, because he was of the opinion that the tour should be the fight of every individual; time there were no teams. The driver called out to the jury of the French Cycling Federation Union Vélocipédique de France and drove the next day, because the decision had not yet fallen. He repeatedly drove initially manufactured the stage alongside other riders and called Desgrange mockingly: "Surely I must not go here next to the well. " He won the stage by 21 minutes ahead of the eventual winner Gustave Garrigou. Although his stage victory kept the validity, but since he was not allowed to go for the overall ranking according to jury's decision, he finished the tour then.
Desgrange criticized Broccos behavior then in the magazine L'Auto, the editor in chief he was, with the words: "He is unworthy. He's just a Domestik. Domestik " for cyclists who ride for the victory of another, but this is not frowned upon today, but normal practice is " a result, the name became established. " Brocco is considered the first Domestik in cycling.
From 1910 drove "Coco" also 36 six-day races, first in Europe. After the First World War, he went to the United States, where he won four six-day race, three times that of New York: 1920 with Willie Coburn, 1921 with Alfred Goullet and 1923 with Marcel Buysse. In 1923 he won in Chicago with Oscar Egg. In 1924, he drove his last race at the age of 39 years.