A moment in time Romain Maes is young in yellow
On the eve of the 1935 Tour, the French weekly Sport ran its front-page pre-race preview. Under portrait sketches of 11 ‘stars of the next Tour de France’, Martial Chevreau wrote damningly on the race’s increasing ‘commercial appetites’ before concluding: ‘In the past, we risked a winner’s name. But as there are 4,000km of road, flint, cobblestones, tracks, climbs, the whole procession of miseries both great and small, as well as accidents [to consider], well it is better to keep quiet about one’s favourites.’
Even if Chevreau had written about who he thought might win,
