Sam Beckett and the Maillot Jaune

We touched on the derivation of 'Waiting for Godot' recently. Lo! And behold! Today's Guardian Review credits Tim Hilton's "One More Kilometre and We're in the Showers" with this
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1257158,00.html :

"One Roger Godeau was a track ace at Paris's Vélodrome d'hiver after the war - this when the Vél d'hiv was still haunted by the fact that it had been used as a transit camp for 12,000 Jews, shamefully rounded up during the occupation by the French police. From that detention, they were transported to Drancy and thence to Auschwitz. In the late 40s, some of the boys who hung around the stadium for a sight of their cycling heroes told Beckett one day: " On attend Godeau." So Beckett perhaps had this melancholy setting, not to mention the shadow of the Holocaust, in mind when he was scripting the lines of Vladimir and Estragon.
John Preston's review in the Telegraph is even more explicit http://tinyurl.com/3a4yd :
"Personally, I was much taken with the French cyclist of the 1940s and 1950s, Roger Godeau, whose name Samuel Beckett admitted taking for his play Waiting for Godot . Roger Godeau specialised in an event called the demi-fond in which competitors were paced by a motorcycle. The demifond is high-speed stuff;enormously taxing for the rider, although conducted over a comparatively short distance. In other words, you wouldn't have had to hang around for long to see Godeau arrive even if he had neglected to eat his bonk bar."
"... Beckett admitted..."?!?! No-one told me.

John Dean
Oxford