Always look on the bright side of life. I might be not so terrible for the international professional road cycling a bit re-shaking of system.
Tour de France
2 July 1963 Jacques Anquetil won the stage in the Pyrenees (Tour de France)
This was Anquetil first ever mountain stage victory at the Tour de France, although he has already won the race three times.
Mini Cycling Who’s Who: Odiel Defraeye
The first Belgian Tour de France winner, who meant to be the first Belgian Tour de France winner. Odiel Defraeye was born on 14th July 1888, his professional career started in 1909. He was the protégé of the Belgian star cyclist Cyrille van Hauwaert, who was hoping Defraeye would be the first Belgian Tour de … Read more
Cycling Who’s Who: Ali Neffati
Ali Neffati, the first African participant of the Tour de France, was born on 22th January 1895 in Tunis. Neffati started his career with being a track cyclist in Tunisia. His talent was discovered by Henri Desgrange, thus he got an invitation to the Tour de France in 1913. He also rode the next year’s … Read more
29 June 1913 The 11th Tour de France started
The race was 5,287 km long divided into 15 stages. It was held between 29 June and 27 July 1913. The Belgian Philippe Thys triumphed at the end, he also won Stage 6 ( Bayonne to Luchon) which included Tourmalet. This was the race when the fork of the extreme unlucky Eugene Christophe’s bike broke, … Read more
Mini Cycling Who’s Who: René Pottier
René Pottier was probably the finest climber of the early years of Tour de France. He was born in 1879 in Moret-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne. In 1903 he won Bordeaux-Paris and had also several other podium results (f. e. at Paris-Roubaix). Pottier attended the Tour de France only 2 times, in 1905 and 1906. The first time … Read more
Mini-Cycling Who’s Who: Sylvère Maes
Two-time Tour de France winner Sylvère Maes was born on the 27th August 1909 in Zevekote, Belgium.
Five promising changes in the structure of Tour de France
The Tour de France is going to be something different in 2020 than it was before. Race director Christian Prudhomme called it “a race for the millennials” and spoke about the basic principles of the changes: it shouldn’t be harder, but more varied, due to the changed habits of the television audience in the recent time. Let’s take a closer look, what it exactly does mean.
Mini Cyclibng Who’s Who: Miguel Poblet
miguel Poblet was born at Montcada i Reixac in the northern suburbs of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on 18 March 1928. He was encouraged by his father (a bicycle shop owner) to take up racing seriously and turned professional in 1944 at the age of 16. The late forties, early fifties were a difficult time to … Read more
