The greatest cycling race in the entire world
The phantom race takes shape
A great event beyond our imaginations
Let us fight with the same weapons
These riders will never reach the finish
A beautiful but terrible battle
An honest and closely checked contest
Are the organisers beginners or just incapable?
Everyone who finished this stage is a marvellous rider
Your bicycle is your salvation
Road cycling has been democratised
Colossal, gigantic and monstrous
Sickened by the behaviour of my rivals
An outpouring of local chauvinism
Vive Garin! vive le Tour!
The most abominable hard race ever imagined
A tour that had everything
Appendix : What became of the 1903 Tour's star names.
