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 d’Aubisuqe an hour behind schedule + 15 minutes behind a nobody.
The story of Alphonse Steinès 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 Steinès’s night on the mountain is a fiction.
The eyes of the international cycling community will be on Northwest Arkansas this weekend as it hosts the 2022 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. Fayetteville joins an elite group of bicycling epicenters and cities such as Paris, Munich and Zolder, Belgium that have played host to this prestigious event during its 72-year history.
The eyes of the international cycling community will be on Northwest Arkansas this weekend as it hosts the 2022 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. Fayetteville joins an elite group of bicycling epicenters and cities such as Paris, Munich and Zolder, Belgium that have played host to this prestigious event during its 72-year history.