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That's got to be the most French way of cheating I've ever heard.
by wmeredith 11y ago
That's got to be the most French way of cheating I've ever heard.
- Gmo 11y agoThat's because you don't know about the early days of the Tour de France where the racers would drink wine along the way.
- exabrial 11y agoHaha what?? Did they have camel backs back then
- adaml_623 11y agoThey used glasses you barbarian ;-)
- soperj 11y agoWine skin. It's been around forever. We use them while skiing.
- Someone 11y agoThe early years were different, though. It was illegal to get any help. In one famous case, a rider got a 3 minute time penalty because he let a boy operate the bellows while he welded his own bike (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Christophe#1913_and_the_Tourmalet_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Christophe#1913_...) And aside: alcohol works! The correlation between "drinking champagne during a stage" and "winning the Tour de France" is surprisingly high, even in recent years.
- syncsynchalt 11y agoI'm 90% certain you're making a joke; the last stage is pro forma (for GC) and the presumptive winner traditionally shares a bottle or two of champagne as they ride into Paris. No easy feat even for riders comfortable with group riding, but of course they are pros for a reason! At least they've switched from glass to plastic in recent years.