From the youngest Tour de France winner to the cyclist with glass eye

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Have you heard about Delio Rodríguez, the cyclist who has won 12 of the 21 stages at Vuelta a Espana?

delio rodriguez won 12 of 21 stages at the Vuelta a Espana — Delio Rodríguez

Nevertheless, the Spanish grand tour was in a delicate situation during the second world war. If you take a look at the 5 fact of every Vuelta a Espana category of PelotonTales blog, especially at the entire on Vuelta 1941 and Vuelta 1942, you can have a little glimpse at the main logistical and moral dilemmas of this period in the history of road cycling. After all, we should not forget, that the race was organised by Franco’s fasist regime for decades, and the cyclists were able to participate the event in the early 1940s were lucky, while millions of people were suffering under the consequences of a horrible war.¹ (From my unique Cental-European point of view, I think, we should not look away from the unconfortable moments of the past, but in contrary, we must talk about it again and again to try to prevent, that it happens again.)

But back to the world of road cycling.

Currently the most busy categories on PelotonTales blog are “vintage cycling image of the day” and the “faces of the peloton”

If you take a look at the latest updates of the latter one, you can find a story about a cyclists who completed the Tour de France half-blind and of course, you can read a bit more about the fan favourite Lèon Vallotton – Alfons Lauwers duo.

iconic vintage cycling image 1911 — Léon Vallotton and Alfons Lauwers

Or pick any other story from this category:

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You might sometimes wonder who is the cyclist on this photo:

or on this one:

If you click on the vintage cycling image of the day category, you can find out easily.

Or just click on some of these blogposts below:

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Recently I posted a few articles related to the first Tour de France and you might bump into the label “French café culture and the Tour de France” at the bottom of the post. I think, there is no such thing as too much writing and/or talking about the importance of the first Tour de France not only in French, but generally the European cultural and social history. Currently there are mostly short post related to this important event, but of course, I intend to write longer and more complex article about it later.

Also, as I did it with the history of La Vuelta , I started sharing posts with basic infos, including short introductions of the winners of the race, about the Tour de France.