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This Sunday, the Tour de France cyclists will make their final sprint up the Champs-Élysées in Paris, completing the 112th edition of the Grand Tour 🚵🏽
In 1980, Martine Franck watched from a balcony on Rue de Rivoli as a string of Tour de France cyclists arrived in Paris.
Robert Capa captured an excited crowd of children in front of a local bike shop, whose owner was racing in the 1939 Tour de France.
Cycling enthusiast @harry_gruyaert had a rare view of the race from inside the Tour's peloton in 1982. Unattached to a newspaper, he photographed the entire atmosphere in color, including the throngs of spectators. "For me, it was just as exciting as the race itself," he said.
PHOTOS:
(1) Arrival of the Tour de France bicycle race. Rue de Rivoli, Paris. 1980. © Martine Franck / Magnum Photos
(2) Belgian Ludo Peeters uses the stage 16 delay to catch up on some sleep. He won the first road stage of the Tour that year – one of three in his ten Tours de France. 1982. © @harry_gruyaert / Magnum Photos
(3) A crowd gathered in front of Mr. Pierre Cloarec's bicycle shop. The owner of the shop is racing in the Tour de France. Pleyben, Brittany. July 1939. © Robert Capa / @icp / Magnum Photos
(4) Tour de France. July 1939. © Robert Capa / @icp / Magnum Photos
(5) Riders relax whilst the Tour organizers negotiate with farmers on stage 16 to remove their tractors from the road. Farmers were protesting against the Common Market's price fixing of agricultural goods. Tour de France. 1982. © @harry_gruyaert / Magnum Photos
(6) A lone piper on the road to Alpe d’Huez. Two Dutch supporters in Raleigh colours await their team. Tour de France. 1982. © @harry_gruyaert / Magnum Photos
(7) Malansac, Brittany. France. Sunday 6th August, 1961. © Guy Le Querrec / Magnum Photos
(8) Into the valley before the big Alpine mountains. At the back wearing the tricolour jersey is the French Champion Régis Clère. Tour de France. 1982. © @harry_gruyaert / Magnum Photos
(9) Arrival of the Tour de France. Alpes de Haute-Provence. Manosque. 1976. © Martine Franck / Magnum Photos
(10) The Tour passing through the winding roads of the French Alps. 1982. © @harry_gruyaert / Magnum Photos