Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Cycling isn’t a game, it’s a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.
French cyclist Octave Lapize walks his bike up a hill during the 1910 Tour de France. Despite this he would go on the win the Tour de France that year.
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
The rare picture of David Niven as Phileas Fogg in the Reform Club’s Card Room was part of a set just for publicity purposes and is held in the Reform Club archives. When it came to actually filming the scenes in the Reform Club they shot in the studios with a life-like set. The Reform Club refused to let any filming done on its premises for fear it might disturb its members.
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