(Berlin, July 26, 2010) Since yesterday the 97th Tour de France history - whether it was a "dope free" tour remains to be seen. Studies are under way, according to Spiegel Online already Radsuperstar against Lance Armstrong and this year's top sprinter Alessandro Petacchi. Nevertheless, the Tour director Christian Prudhomme boasted shortly after the race that not a single doping case has become known.
Should not confirm the suspicion, then this would be a surprise to most viewers. Fast strange is it that seems to have the race is still no image problems. The tour is already one of the great myths of modern times. So this anniversary year, the crossing of the Col du Tourmalet 100th Times in 1910 over the 2155-meter road pass in the French Pyrenees for the first time in the tour program - then there was no more today than a good road trail, in the Pyrenees, there were even wild bears. The gearbox has been approved until 1937. Little wonder that the former overall winner Octave Lapize the route managers because of the high degree of difficulty, known as a murderer. 2010, the drivers had to pass because of the anniversary of the defeat twice.
The 100-year anniversary celebrated the entire tour in 2003, only in the years during the two world wars was not driving wheel. With a length of 2428 kilometers, this first race was also the shortest in the history of the Tour de France, in 1926 was the incredible distance 5745 km. Since the doping scandal of 1998, known as the Festina affair, the line length is reduced and is now an average of 3,500 miles. The individual stages are now shorter with a maximum of 250 kilometers per day, almost by half as the longest ever with 482 miles driven daily stage in 1919. was founded
the tour as a way of a newspaper advertising campaign - the French sports newspaper L'Auto. Just five years later, the then tour director and chief editor of the newspaper an advertising column which is now in great demand even with your promotional gifts from the public.
And if you're thinking, the scandals of the Tour de France is a product of the modern competitive pressures that are wrong. Already in the second race in 1904, 73 of 88 drivers subsequently expelled from the race standings - they had secret agreements were made, or railroad car without permission and had driven nails scattered on the road.
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