Joris van den BerghW
Joris van den Bergh

Johannes Antonius Arnoldus 'Joris' van den Bergh was a Dutch author and journalist. He is considered a pioneer of Dutch sports journalism.

Frederick Thomas BidlakeW
Frederick Thomas Bidlake

Frederick Thomas Bidlake was an English racing cyclist of the late 19th century, who became one of the most notable administrators of British road bicycle racing during the early 20th century. The annual Bidlake Memorial Prize, was instituted in his memory. He was a timekeeper in cycling, motorcycling and for seaplane races in the 1930s.

Davide CassaniW
Davide Cassani

Davide Cassani is a former road cyclist and cycling commentator on Italian television from Italy. Now he works as manager for Italy national cycling team.

Stanley CotterellW
Stanley Cotterell

Stanley John Ambrose Cotterell (1857–1939) founded the Bicycle Touring Club at Harrogate, Yorkshire, on 5 August 1878, while he was a medical student. Its headquarters were wherever he happened to be living. By 1883, the Bicycle Touring Club was renamed the Cyclists' Touring Club to open membership to tricyclists.

Henri DesgrangeW
Henri Desgrange

Henri Desgrange was a French bicycle racer and sports journalist. He set twelve world track cycling records, including the hour record of 35.325 kilometres (21.950 mi) on 11 May 1893. He was the first organiser of the Tour de France.

Hélène DutrieuW
Hélène Dutrieu

Hélène Dutrieu, was a Belgian cycling world champion, stunt cyclist, stunt motorcyclist, automobile racer, stunt driver, pioneer aviator, wartime ambulance driver, and director of a military hospital.

Éric FottorinoW
Éric Fottorino

Éric Fottorino, is a French journalist and writer. He is the winner of the Prix Femina, 2007, for Baisers de cinéma. After having been a reporter for the daily newspaper Le Monde, then becoming editor-in-chief and executive editor, he was appointed president of the directory group of the La Vie-Le Monde group in January 2008. He was removed from this latter office in December 2010.

John Foster FraserW
John Foster Fraser

Sir John Foster Fraser was a Scottish travel author. In July 1896, he and two friends, Samuel Edward Lunn and Francis Herbert Lowe, took a bicycle trip around the world riding Rover safety bicycles. They covered 19,237 miles in two years and two months, travelling through 17 countries and across three continents. He documented the trip in the book Round the World on a Wheel.

Pierre GiffardW
Pierre Giffard

Pierre Giffard was a French journalist, a pioneer of modern political reporting, a newspaper publisher and a prolific sports organiser. In 1892, he was appointed Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'Honneur and in 1900 he was appointed an Officier (Officer) of the Légion d'Honneur.

Michael Hutchinson (cyclist)W
Michael Hutchinson (cyclist)

Michael Hutchinson is a British and Irish racing cyclist and writer who has represented Great Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland at events including the Commonwealth Games.

Gary ImlachW
Gary Imlach

Gary Imlach is a British author, journalist and broadcaster, specialising in sport. After first being known as a sports presenter on TV-am, Imlach has particularly become associated with non-mainstream sports, working for many years as the face of Channel 4's coverage of American Football. Imlach has covered the Tour de France since 1990, formerly on Channel 4, transferring to ITV in 2001 when the station bought the television rights to the cycle race.

Serge Lang (skiing)W
Serge Lang (skiing)

Serge Lang was a French journalist, alpine skier, and the founder of the alpine skiing World Cup. As a journalist he covered alpine skiing, cycling, and other sports for five major publications. In the mid-1960s, he envisioned a season-long series of ski races, which became the World Cup skiing circuit. He continued to guide the growth of the World Cup and the sport of ski racing over the next two decades.

Jean-Marie LeblancW
Jean-Marie Leblanc

Jean-Marie Leblanc is a French retired professional road bicycle racer who was general director of the Tour de France from 1989 to 2007, when he reached pensionable age and was succeeded by Christian Prudhomme.

Frank Lenz (cyclist)W
Frank Lenz (cyclist)

Frank George Lenz was an American bicyclist and adventurer who disappeared somewhere near Erzurum, Turkey, then in the Ottoman Empire, in May 1894, during an attempt to circle the globe by bicycle.

Félix LévitanW
Félix Lévitan

Félix Lévitan, a sports journalist, was the third organiser of the Tour de France, a role he shared for much of the time with Jacques Goddet. Lévitan is credited with looking after the financial side of the Tour while Goddet concentrated on the sporting aspect, but in the end Lévitan was fired while Goddet simply retired.

Phil LiggettW
Phil Liggett

Philip Alexander Liggett is an English commentator and journalist who covers professional cycling.

Annie LondonderryW
Annie Londonderry

Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, known as Annie Londonderry, was a Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world.

Indro MontanelliW
Indro Montanelli

Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli Knight Grand Cross OMRI was an Italian journalist, historian and writer, and one of the 50 World Press Freedom Heroes according to the International Press Institute.

Gianni MuraW
Gianni Mura

Gianni Mura was an Italian sports journalist and writer.

Sam MussabiniW
Sam Mussabini

Scipio Africanus "Sam" Mussabini was an English athletics coach best known for his work with Harold Abrahams. In total, he led athletes to eleven medals over five Olympic Games. However, in an era where amateurism was prized, he was not officially recognised because he was a professional coach.

Davis PhinneyW
Davis Phinney

Davis Phinney is a retired professional road bicycle racer from the United States. He won 328 races in the 1980s and '90s, a record for an American, including two Tour de France stages. He has worked in media since retiring as a racer. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at age 40.

Hugh PorterW
Hugh Porter

Hugh William Porter MBE is one of Britain's greatest former professional cyclists, winning four world titles in the individual pursuit - more than any other rider - as well as a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1966. He is now a commentator on cycling events, working most notably for the BBC and ITV.

Christian PrudhommeW
Christian Prudhomme

Christian Prudhomme is a French journalist and general director of the Tour de France since 2007.

Paul SherwenW
Paul Sherwen

Paul Sherwen was an English professional racing cyclist and later a broadcaster on cycling, notably the Tour de France. He raced in seven editions of the Tour, finishing five, and gained a reputation for his ability to suffer over long mountain stages.

Thomas Stevens (cyclist)W
Thomas Stevens (cyclist)

Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. He rode a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, from April 1884 to December 1886. He later searched for Henry Morton Stanley in Africa, investigated the claims of Indian ascetics and became manager of the Garrick Theatre in London.

Paul de VivieW
Paul de Vivie

Paul de Vivie, who wrote as Vélocio, was the publisher of Le Cycliste, a developer and early champion of derailleur gears, and father of French bicycle touring and randonneuring.

Philippa YorkW
Philippa York

Philippa York is a Scottish journalist and former professional road racing cyclist.