Mapping Le Tour: The unofficial history of all 100 Tour de France races. Ellis Bacon
2556 m (8386 ft) Mountain stages: 9
If a return to five stages run as team time trials and no individual time trials at all made the 1936 Tour feel like a step back in time, it was but a temporary blip. There was to be a return to what resembles the modern Tour, complete with individual time trials, in 1937, and with it a new era as Henri Desgrange, the founding father and race organiser since the first edition in 1903, stepped aside to let Jacques Goddet, Desgrange’s deputy at L’Auto, take hold of the reins.
However, having had a prostate operation prior to the 1936 race, and already struggling on stage 1, Desgrange had to abandon his own race, handing over what he hoped was only temporary control of his event to Goddet as early as stage 2.
Defending Tour champion Romain Maes then abandoned on stage 7 –the by-now regular ‘queen stage’, which included the brutal climbs of the Télégraphe, the Galibier and the Lautaret – and it was his Belgian team-mate, Sylvère Maes, and no relation, who rose to the top in the Alps.
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