He was the first Italian cyclist to win the Tour and the first rider to hold the yellow jersey the entire event.

This was considered successful, and the time bonus was increased to three minutes for the 1924 Tour de France.

[2] After the 1923 Tour de France, the winner Henri Pélissier had said that the runner-up Bottecchia would go on to win the race.

[5] Pélissier objected to the rule, on the ground that the jerseys that he wore were his own, and had not been provided by the sponsor.

At the start of the third stage, a tour official checked how many jerseys Henri Pélissier was wearing.

[5] He did so anyway, but retired at Coutances, together with his brother Francis Pélissier and teammate Maurice Ville.

[4] A few days after Henri Pélissier quit the race, he sent a letter to the communist magazine l'Humanité, writing that he accepted "‘excessive fatigue, suffering, pain" as part of the cycling profession, but that he wanted to be treated as a human being.

The runner-up, Nicolas Frantz, would win in 1927 and 1928; in 1928 he would repeat the feat of Bottecchia of wearing the yellow jersey the entire race.