HOW THE Tour de France BEGAN: Drugs, Killer Trails and Agressive Fans

Instagram: Twitter: PayPal: donat@ Tour de France was founded in 1903 by Henri Desgrange, editor of the daily sports paper L’Auto, to increase the newspaper’s sales. Today it is regarded as the world’s most prestigious and challenging bicycle race. In this episode of ‘How It Was,’ we will show you the first Tour de France in 1903. You will find out about the crazy fans whose antics threatened to end the race and about dangerous routes for which the organizers were called “murderers.“ At the very end, we will tell you what doping substances cyclists used in the past, while those were still legal.