A Miscellany of Le Tour de France - Day 8

1910 You would be forgiven for thinking the first Tour fatality involved a smattering of skullduggery or a brutal crash.

But no, Adolphe Helière - a rider also responsible for creating the route - should have omitted the coast.

He visited the Côte d’Azur on his rest day and went for a dip in the sea, only to be fatally stung by a highly poisonous jellyfish.

Every day until the Grand Depart, we’ll be sharing 100 stories from the last 100 years, a design per day until the greatest show on earth begins.