Photograph of Garin taking a drink, before he went on to win the Bordeaux-Paris, a race of 500 km from south-west France 1902 .Maurice-Francois Garin, (1871 - 1957), Italian-born French road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating.

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