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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Oct 22, 2014 11:00 AM UTC  Frenchman Rene Vietto tries to break away from Spanish rider Vicente Trueba as they climb the mountain pass of the Tourmalet (Col du Tourmalet) on July 23, 1934 during the 18th stage of the 28th Tour de France Frenchman Rene Vietto tries to break away from Spanish rider Vicente Trueba as they climb the mountain pass of the Tourmalet (Col du Tourmalet) on July 23, 1934 during the 18th stage of the 28th Tour de France AFP / Getty Images  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Oct 22, 2014 11:00 AM UTC With Wednesday’s official [announcement](http://www.letour.com/us/) of the route for the 2015 Tour de France, the best cyclists in the world know exactly where they’ll be next July. [They also know what they stand to win](http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/sporting-stakes-rules.html): there are about 2 million euros (about $2.6 million) at stake, with a €450,000 prize for the final winner and €22,500 for the winner of each stage (that’s about $576,000 and $28,800, respectively). That’s considerably less than the prize pool available for the[ famously lucrative International Dota 2](http://www.gamespot.com/articles/10-million-dota-2-international-exceeds-super-bowl-masters-and-tour-de-france-prizes/1100-6420785/) video game championships, but it’s plenty to get excited about — especially compared to the money that used to be available for Tour de France winners. When TIME first covered the world’s most famous cycling event, [in 1934](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,787907,00.html), only 60 competitors were entered (versus 198 today) and the stakes were much lower: --- > “” --- Even accounting for inflation, that’s not much compared to today’s prizes: $52,800 in 1934 dollars is $937,207.88 today, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics [inflation calculator](http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=52%2C800&year1=1934&year2=2014), and $660 is $11,715.10\. That means the winner of each stage stands to make twice as much as he did 80 years ago, and the overall prize pot is nearly three times as big. And the prizes haven’t exactly climbed steadily: in 1954, TIME [reported](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,936277,00.html) that the winner of each stage would take home a mere $570 (about $5,000 today). At least 1934’s racers could afford a train ticket, if not necessarily first class. And, as TIME wrote in its coverage of the race, that was important: “One race was so swift and grim,” reported the magazine, “that after the finish a rider was reported to have bought a train ticket over the route so that he could inspect the scenery.” **_Read more:_** [A Brief History of the Tour de France](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1820136,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3525402/tour-de-france-1934/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3525402/tour-de-france-1934/"},"headline":"Tour de France Prize Money Way Up","datePublished":"2014-10-22T11:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:54:06.949Z","description":"With Wednesday's official announcement of the route for the 2015 Tour de France, the best cyclists in the world know exactly where they'll be next...","url":"https://time.com/3525402/tour-de-france-1934/","keywords":["Money","Sports topic","Cycling","tour de france"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50be252e26cc1e14/698761cba988ca65f06a9ed4/tour-de-france.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt50be252e26cc1e14/698761cba988ca65f06a9ed4/tour-de-france.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Tour de France 1934","caption":"Tour de France 1934","creditText":"AFP / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3525402/tour-de-france-1934/","name":"Tour de France Prize Money Way Up"}}]}] ```