On July 19, 1903 Maurice Garin won the inaugural Tour De France. Garin – born in French-speaking, northwest Italy in 1871 – reportedly became a professional racer by impeding a race that had already ...

All of the furore surrounding cheating in the Tour de France is nothing new. In the early days, riders were involved in devious practices that make today's Tour stars seem like choirboys. The first ...

PARIS (Reuters) – Maurice Garin, winner of the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, belonged to an era of adventurous pioneers and so-called amateurs in a world without television and little press ...

There is cheating, and then there is the Tour de France — an event so rife with cheating that riders taking rat poison, nitroglycerine, and chloroform was considered normal as far back as 1924. Part 1 ...

The Tour de France celebrated the 100th anniversary of its birth with flamboyance and nostalgia in 2003, but 2004 marks a centenary organisers would probably rather forget. The first Tour in 1903 ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ninety-nine Tours de France have been won and lost since the inaugural victor, Maurice Garin, wrestled his La ...

Maurice-François Garin (3 March 1871 – 19 February 1957) was an Italian-French road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in ...