The First Tour de France (1903)

The 100th Tour de France is underway. It is a 23 day, 3200 km multi stage bicycle race through the Pyrenees and the Alps.
The Public Domain Review has posted photos of the first Tour in 1903. The riders don't look particularly aerodynamic.

The winning scene at the finish of the first Tour. In the middle on the right: the winner, Maurice Garin,
to his left: most likely Leon Georget.

The 1903 competition was run only in six fairly flat stages, unlike the mountainous 21 stage event it would grow to become, however, each of these 1903 stages were extraordinarily long, with an average distance of over 400 km (250 mi), more than double the distance of today’s. 60 cyclists, all professionals or semi-professionals, started the race, of whom 49 were French, 4 Belgian, 4 Swiss, 2 German, and one was Italian, Maurice Garin, the pre-race favourite who eventually went on to win the event. Garin would go onto also win the next year’s race only to then be disqualified along with eight other riders for cheating including the illegal use of cars and trains.