Dr Hutch
Sep 03, 2020
2 minutes
Photos Yuzuru Sunada, Andy Jones
he Tour de France started life as a heroic event. It was designed to break bike riders by asking them to do something that most people thought was impossible; to ride a lap of France, on rough roads, with no help, with basic equipment. Henri Desgrange is rightly feted as the race’s inventor, and in his reign as its tyrannical director
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