The mountain pass is best known for cycling stages in the Tour de France. On the Galibier there is a monument in memory of Henri Desgrange, the first director of the Tour de France. Because the Galibier can only be reached after the Col du Télégraphe or the Col du Lautaret has been conquered, this makes this mountain pass one of the toughest Alpine cols in cycling.
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