Vuelta Ciclista a España (or just La Vuelta), the third three-week race of the road cycling season is also the youngest grand tour. The first edition was held in 1935. The race started on 29th April, included 14 stages and finished on the 15th of May. Only 50 cyclists entered the event and 29 finished. … Read more
The 31st Tour de France (held between 30th June and 25th July 1937) was the first race for the new director Jacques Goddet. Since the beginning in 1903, Henri Desgrange, the “founding father of Tour de France” was the race director, now he has retired. He still visited the race frequently untill his death in … Read more
Gino Bartali was already a two-time Giro d’Italia winner (1936 and 1937) when he first entered Tour de France in the summer of 1937.The years before World War II witnessed the growing political-military tension in Europe. In 1936, the year when Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles (1919) by sending troops into the demilitarized Rhineland, … Read more
The first Tour de France without Henri Desgrange in charge since the creation of the event in 1903 didn’t go down well in the history of road cycling at all. In 1937 Jacques Goddet was full in charge and with him came the first big change: it was the first time when gear change … Read more
Two-time Tour de France winner Slyvère Maes was born on the 27th August 1909 in Zevekote, Belgium.
The 31st Tour de France was held between 30 June and 25 July in 1937. The route was 4415 km long, divided into 20 stages (many of them had a and b parts).
Two-time Tour de France winner Sylvère Maes was born on the 27th August 1909 in Zevekote, Belgium.