I don't think there will ever be another Merckx. It's weird, I was just wondering what had become of VDB. Now I know. There was a time when you saw no one else on the cover of Cycle Sport et al.
Very sad, we all have many bookmarked pages from years ago I'd think, I was just reading some older bookmarked webpages and one was on him just days before he passed on. Very sad. I wonder what they mean when they said "wasn't a surprise, he'd been having his downs".