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...etit Journal, but also by ''L'Auto-Velo'', edited by none other than Henri Desgrange. For the first time, professionals were segregated from the "touriste-routi ...rander race, the [[Tour de France]], to his editor, Henri Desgrange. Under Desgrange's leadership, the first Tour happened two years later, in 1903, with stages

...road and track racing (including, among others, [[Major Taylor]], [[Henri Desgrange]], [[Fausto Coppi]], [[Jacques Anquetil]], [[Eddy Merckx]], and [[Francesco

They enjoy quoting [[Henri Desgrange]], the founder of the [[Tour de France]]:

...our it was selling 500,000 copies a day. The record circulation claimed by Desgrange was 854,000, achieved during the 1933 Tour. Today, the Tour is organised by ...lipstream]]ing and other team tactics were initially savagely condemned by Desgrange, and he only accepted their inevitability during the 1920s. Even when comme

...the Tour de France. The starters did include [[Maurice Garin]], winner of Desgrange's first Tour, who was the local hope in Roubaix because he and two brothers "This wasn't a race. It was a pilgrimage.|[[Henri Pélissier]], speaking of his 1919 victory.

...in [[Marseille]]. Before he dropped out, he warned the organizer, [[Henri Desgrange]], who said: "You are the first rider to come to see me before dropping out