Jacques Augendre (born 28 April 1925) is a French journalist and the first to have followed fifty Tours de France.

[3] Jacques Augendre, the son of a former cyclist, raced as a boy during the German occupation of France during the second world war.

Goddet started a new paper, L'Équipe, which won government approval to run the race after a competition with other contenders.

He followed his first Tour in 1949, when Fausto Coppi overcame another Italian, Gino Bartali, after a Frenchman in a regional team, Jacques Marinelli, had profited from the battle between them to wear the yellow jersey of leadership.

His most remarkable event was Greg LeMond's win by eight seconds in 1989, when he took victory from Laurent Fignon in the last hour.