Friday, March 4, 2011

Old Dutch Tour de France pictures

First Tour de France-
(The finish of the first Tour. At the right: the first winner, Maurice Garin. At the left: probably Leon Georget (not sure). Tour de France 1903)

Racing cyclists pass the Atomium (Brussels)-
(The Atomium was built for the World Fair 1958.)

No help for Giusto Cerutti-
(Italian Giusto Cerutti has a broken wheel after a fall. According to the rules he is not alowed to accept help. Tour de France 1928)

Joop Zoetemelk and Eddy Merckx shaking hands-
1973(not a Tour de France picture, but cool nonetheless)

These were all taken from the Dutch National Archives on Flickr, there is a nice set of pictures there.

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