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The 1903 Tour de France was the first cycling race set up and sponsored by the newspaper L'Auto, ancestor of the current daily, L'Équipe. It ran from 1 to 19 July in six stages over 2,428 km (1,509 mi), and was won by Maurice Garin .
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 most well-known and prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
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 ...
Henri Desgrange (2nd from right) TdF 1913. Unease with the attention paid to his track business by the leading sports paper, Le Vélo, and support from business magnates like Jules-Albert de Dion and Adolphe Clément-Bayard, who were displeased with the paper's advertising rates (and their political stance on the Dreyfus affair), led Desgranges to become the editor of a newly-founded competing ...
Maurice Garin. Maurice-François Garin [2] (pronounced [mɔʁis fʁɑ̃swa ɡaʁɛ̃, moʁ-]; 3 March 1871 [citation needed] – 19 February 1957) [3] was an Italian-French road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating.
2024 Tour de France Green Jersey Contenders Tim de Waele - Getty Images. ... Girmay–who won a stage at the Giro d’Italia as a rookie in 2022–raced his first Tour de France last year with his ...
The 2022 race was followed by the Tour de France Femmes, the first official Tour de France for women since 1989. [81] In 2024, Pogačar took back the Tour title, winning by more than six minutes over Vingegaard while Tour debutant, Remco Evenepoel, rounded out the podium. Pogačar won six stages, including five of the last eight stages.
Getty Images. Tadej Pogačar Read the Complete Analysis ... dress rehearsal for the Tour de France–still came to the Tour fit enough to only lose 1:15 during one of the hardest first weeks in ...