Ghost of the Galibier: France Big Ride
An abandoned gravel track up the Col du Galibier traces the original route used by Tour heroes of the early 1900s
Source: cyclist.co.uk
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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
Source: podiumcafe.com
Mythologies: Major Taylor, Henri Desgrange and a Wheelbarrow Full of Centimes
Legend has it that Henri Desgrange, creator of the Tour de France, once paid cycling’s first Black world champion with 10-centime coins, so many that Major Taylor needed a wheelbarrow to cart the coins away. Is there any truth in this myth?
Source: podiumcafe.com
Tour de France history: The last Tour before the Great War
In 1914 Belgium’s Philippe Thys won his second Tour in a race dominated by his Peugeot team – just days before Europe descended into war
Source: cyclist.co.uk