The first Tour de France took place over 100 years ago, back in 1903. Do you know why the race was held and who had the idea for cyclists to go around the whole of France?
Today it is taken for granted that the leaders of the various classifications of a multistage bicycle race wear coloured jerseys to distinguish them from the other riders. But, of course, that wasn’t always the case. For the first dozen or so years of the…
The beginnings of the Tour de France were wild. It was getting harder every year and the riders had to deal with increasingly crazier challenges. In 1910, the organizers decided that the cyclists should cross the Pyrenees mountains. How did they do it considering there…
