At 50, Jeannie Longo is showing no sign of slowing down as she won her 56th national champion’s jersey, successfully defending her French national time trial title in Saint-Brieuc on Thursday.

Longo, who will celebrate her 51st birthday in October, earned her first national title 30 years ago, well before most of her rivals were born. She narrowly missed the podium in last year’s Olympic time trial in Beijing, finishing less than two seconds out of third place.

Thursday’s victory represented Longo’s ninth national time trial title, an event first opened to women in 1995. Longo is also scheduled to defend her national road race title on Saturday.

Chapeau Jeannie…..
Incredible

SB

Incroyable n’est ce pas!

Hi Steve remember watching Jennie Longo get 2nd in the world MTB championships in 1993 in France in those muddy conditions.She had hardly been on a MTB thought she was going to win it.Class ACT.

What a woman!

respect!

high 5 jeanie!

**** hell thats amazing by any stretch of the imagination

She’s a different class, but it doesn’t really say much for the younger generation riders!

anyone ever seen her smile?
Is she not, as David Harmon would say, from a different era of cycling?
Sorry but she dont impress me