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?
Source: podiumcafe.com
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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 d’Aubisuqe an hour behind schedule + 15 minutes behind a nobody.
Source: podiumcafe.com
Tour de France history: Bradley Wiggins secures Sky's first Tour title
In 2012 Bradley Wiggins became the first British male to win the Tour de France, claiming Team Sky’s first win in the process
Source: cyclist.co.uk
Mythologies: Alphonse Steinès, the Tour de France and the Invention of the Pyrénées
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.
Source: podiumcafe.com
Tour de France history: Switzerland's short-lived success
The arrival of two riders with very different styles in the 1950s heralded a brief golden period for the Swiss at the Tour
Source: cyclist.co.uk