A moment in time Magne holds on to win his first Tour
’The 25th Tour de France started in Eaux-Bonnes, at the foot of the Col de l’Aubisque,’ reported Le Miroir des Sports on 11th July 1931. ‘Until then, like all previous years, it had been nothing but a joke. From Paris, frankly speaking, we had been bored to death; but, all of a sudden, what change and what compensation!’
The journal was referring to the fireworks that had lit up the race three days earlier. The first of two days in the Pyrenees, Stage 9 was 231km from Pau to Luchon and featured ascents of the Aubisque
