Tour de France: Queen Stages and Circles of Death
When did bike races get queen stages? And why are they queen stages in some countries but king stages in others? What even is a queen stage?
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Tour de France history: Petit-Breton makes it two Tour titles in 1908
In 1908 Lucien Petit-Breton became the first two-time Tour de France winner in a race dominated by Peugeot
Source: cyclist.co.uk
Sprinting Through No Man's Land, by Adin Dobkin
The story of the 1919 Tour de France, the first held after the end of the First World War
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Book Review: Climbers, by Peter Cossins
Book review: Climbers, by Peter Cossins
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Mythologies: Assassins of the Aubisque!
The 1910 Tour has given rise to no end of nonsense, not least the claim that Octave Lapize called the race organisers assassins as he crossed the Col dâAubisuqe an hour behind schedule + 15 minutes behind a nobody.
Source: podiumcafe.com
Mythologies: Alphonse Steinès, the Tour de France and the Invention of the Pyrénées
The story of Alphonse SteinĂšs night on the Tourmalet and the telegram he subsequently sent to Henri Desgrange has gone down in legend. Remarkably, there was no telegram, and much of what is said about SteinĂšsâs night on the mountain is a fiction.
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Dirty Feet, by Les Woodland
A brief history of the Tour de France from the veteran cycling historian Les Woodland
Source: podiumcafe.com