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How well do you know… French masters

1 The inaugural Tour de France in 1903 was won by which rider?

2 In the 1913 Tour, which rider was handed a time penalty for allowing a blacksmith’s boy to pump the bellows for him while he mended a broken fork?

3 The same rider later became known for putting his name to which cycling accessory/component?

Louison Bobet was the first rider to win

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