1921 Tour de France

The 1921 Tour de France was the 15th edition, held from 26 June to 24 July over 5,485 km at 24.720 km/h, and was won by the Belgian Léon Scieur. Belgians dominated the whole race, helped by the absence of the French Pélissier brothers, who were feuding with the organisation after Henri's penalty for throwing away a tyre in 1920. Scieur's win was largely uncontested; Hector Heusghem came close after the sixth stage but lost time later, and the organisers' efforts to provoke more attacking failed. Two forty-year-old veterans rode: Ernest Paul and Lucien Pothier, second in the very first Tour, while 1920 winner Philippe Thys was recovering from illness.