5 little facts about Tour de France 1910
The mighty ascents of the Pyrenees, including Col du Tourmalet were introduced to the race. The broom wagon, picking up the cyclists who abandoned… Read More »5 little facts about Tour de France 1910
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1910 Tour de France
When Octave Lapize called the Tour de France organizers “murderers”
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”
Tour de France visits Tourmalet
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