The 1969 edition of the Tour de France was Merckx’s first. Coming off wins in other prestigious races such as the Giro d’Italia, Merckx had… Read More »Eddy Merckx’s epic solo victory in the Pyrenees (Tour de France 1969)
In 1910, Henri Desgrange, the Tour’s founder and director, decided to introduce mountain stages into the race to make it even more challenging. The Pyrenean… Read More »When Octave Lapize called the Tour de France organizers “murderers”
The more I dvelve into the history of road cycling races the more I convinced that the stories born on the slopes of Col d’Aubisque… Read More »Inexperienced cyclist in yellow jersey rescued from the ravine (Wim van Est, Tour de France 1951)
The 10th stage of Tour de France 1926 is often dubbed as the toughest stage ever in the history of the race. The 326 km… Read More »The toughest Tour de France stage ever
It was a great moment and yet one of the weirdest situations in the history of Tour de France, when, and, it seems to be… Read More »Tour de France visits Tourmalet