Stair Climbing race at the Eiffel Tower, Paris 1905. An amateur cyclist named Forestier was the favourite. He had won the Paris-Dieppe cycling race in 1903. Eugene Forestier, later became a professional cyclist and came 15th in the 1908 Tour de France

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