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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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?
In 1908 Lucien Petit-Breton became the first two-time Tour de France winner in a race dominated by Peugeot
The story of the 1919 Tour de France, the first held after the end of the First World War
Book review: Climbers, by Peter Cossins
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.