Tour de France 1963

Fernando Manzaneque on the Col d’Iseran (Tour de France 1963)

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Fernando Manzaneque on the Col d'Iseran at the Tour de France 1963

Snow at the Tour de France? Yes, it happens sometimes, especially, when the race visits such high places like Col d’Iseran in the Alps. In the 16th stage of Tour de France 1963, the peloton visited the Alps. It was a 202 km long stage between Grenoble and Val d’Isere, including Col de la Croix … Read more

Cycling in snow

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Italian cycling legend Fausto Coppi riding between two big snow walls on Stelvio in 1952

Road cycling is not a winter sport. But sometimes -especially in the high mountains  – winter visits road cycling events in the form of snow. Images of cyclists struggling through the snow are usually fit into the narrativa of road cycling races being heroic and epic. Fausto Coppi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and all the … Read more

2 July 1963 Jacques Anquetil won the stage in the Pyrenees (Tour de France)

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This was Anquetil first ever mountain stage victory at the Tour de France, although he has already won the race three times.   

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