Tour de France 2022 -Stage 1 (Copenhagen – Copenhagen 13,2 km)

Eddy Merckx leads the list of the most Tour de France stage victories with  34 wins. But Mark Cavendish is right behind him with 30. On the 13th stage of Tour de France 2021, Mark Cavendish equalled Eddy Merckx astonishing record. Riders with at least 10 victories: Eddy Merckx  34 Mark Cavendish 34 Bernard Hinault  … Read more

Col d’Allos was part of the program of Tour de France since the race visited the Alps for the very first time in 1911. Especially during the 1920s and the 1930s was very popular. In the second half of the 20th century it was used muvh more rarely. 1911: François Faber 1912:  Octave Lapize 1913:  … Read more

Tour de France 2024 will start in Florence (Italy). Although the race visited neigbour countries before the First World War already, the tradition of starting the first stage of Tour de France abroad dated back to 1954  only, when the Grand Départ took place in Amsterdam (Netherland) One of the most uniqe occasions was the … Read more

Louis Trousselier (1881-1939), the winner of the 3rd Tour de France (1905) was an entertaining person, for sure. He even shouldn’t have been there, when he won the race, because his official leave from the French army ended days before.  But he stayed a bit longer and won the general classification of the Tour de … Read more