There were four cyclists who had been in the lead group in both stages, and they were jointly leading the Tour. Micheletto was not part of the first group in the second stage, and thus lost his lead. The stage was won by Italian Giovanni Micheletto in a sprint. In the first stages, not much happened in the overall classification, as most cyclists were saving their energy for the Pyrenees. Philippe Thys, winner of the 1913 Tour de France, after finishing the race Neffati had been discovered by Tour organiser Henri Desgrange, and would later become a driver at l'Auto, the newspaper that organised the Tour de France. The first African cyclist took part in the Tour de France in 1913: Ali Neffati from Tunisia. The organisers preferred riders to ride solo, so they added a rule that if a cyclist would win a stage with a margin of 20 minutes or more, he would not only get his own prize money, but also the half of all the other cyclists' prize money of that stage. In 1913, this changed, and cyclists from the same team were allowed to work together. Īlthough cyclists had started in teams previously, the rules had forbidden them to work together against other cyclists. Stage results This edition started with six former Tour de France winners ( Louis Trousselier, Lucien Petit-Breton, François Faber, Octave Lapize, Gustave Garrigou and Odile Defraye), the most ever. The remaining 89 cyclists started in the isolés category. The 1913 Tour started with 140 cyclists there were 51 cyclists distributed over 9 teams, including all favourites for the overall victory. Teams įor a more comprehensive list, see List of teams and cyclists in the 1913 Tour de France. Prior to the 1913 race, the Tour the France always had been in the clockwise direction through France, and in 1913 it was anticlockwise. įor the first time, the route of the race was in the opposite direction.

This was also intended to increase combativity, because in the points system riders did not care about time gaps, so escaped low-ranked riders were ignored by high-ranked cyclists. The system had been working against a French cyclist and in favor of a Belgian cyclist ( Odiel Defraye, who won the Tour de France in 1912), and the French organisation changed the system back again to the time system: the finishing times of all stages were added per cyclist, and the cyclist with the least total time was the winner. In the 1912 Tour de France, this system had been working against Eugène Christophe's chances, who would have been leading the time classification up until the final stage where he allowed a group to ride away. In 1905, the format of the Tour de France had been changed from the time system to the points system, to reduce the cheating that had caused the first four cyclists of the 1904 Tour de France to be disqualified.

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