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The 1924 Tour de France was the 18th edition of the Tour de France and was won by Ottavio Bottecchia. He was the first Italian cyclist to win the Tour and the first rider to hold the yellow jersey the entire event. The race was held over 5,425 km with an average speed of 23.972 km/h (14.896 mph).
Entrants to the 1924 Tour de France included several past and future winners such as defending champion Henri Pélissier , Philippe Thys (1913, 1914, 1920), Lucien Buysse and Nicolas Frantz (1927, 1928). After the 1923 Tour de France, the winner Henri Pélissier had said that the runner-up Bottecchia would win the race. [1]
Route of the 1924 Tour de France. The 1924 Tour de France was the 18th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Paris with a flat stage on 22 June, and Stage 8 occurred on 6 July with a flat stage to Toulon. The race finished in Paris on 20 July.
One stage 1923 Tour de France Joseph Muller ( Orschwiller , 9 March 1895 — Lamarche , 8 May 1975) was a French professional road bicycle racer . He rode and finished the Tour de France from 1920 to 1924, winning one stage in the 1923 Tour de France and finishing 6th in the 1924 Tour de France .
Any list of Tour de France winners has to include Garin for no other reason than the Frenchman won the first-ever. In 1903, Garin won the six-stage Tour, covering its 1,509 miles in under ninety ...
Ottavio Bottecchia (pronounced [otˈtaːvjo botˈtekkja]; [1] 1 August 1894 – 15 June 1927 [2]) was an Italian cyclist and the first Italian winner of the Tour de France.. He was found injured and unconscious by a roadside and died a few days later; the exact circumstances of his accident remain a mystery.
With Belmont Stakes winner Dornoch topping the field, post time for the first of 14 races is at noon, with the Haskell to be run just before 6 p.m. Trainer Todd Pletcher will send 2-year-old ...
The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]