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That's because you don't know about the early days of the Tour de France where the racers would drink wine along the way.
by Gmo 10y ago
That'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 10y agoHaha what?? Did they have camel backs back then
- adaml_623 10y agoThey used glasses you barbarian ;-)
- soperj 10y agoWine skin. It's been around forever. We use them while skiing.
- Someone 10y 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 10y 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.