Complex sentence: A Belgian dockworker, Wildermeersch was a wry soul and a great favorite of the media, but he lost out again, this time to Jairo Ocampo of Colombia, 587-563.
Split into simpler sentences: A Belgian dockworker, Wildermeersch was a wry soul and a great favorite of the media. But he lost out again, this time to Jairo Ocampo of Colombia, 587-563.