It also showcased the debuts of André Leducq (4th) and Antonin Magne (6th), two French riders who would win the Tour de France in coming years.

Because Tour director Henri Desgrange was dissatisfied with the tactics used in the long flat stages in the previous years, the individual team start format was introduced, similar to the later team time trial.

The concept did not make the race more interesting, so after the 1929 Tour de France, it was removed again.

In 1926 and previous years, in the flat stages without mountains most cyclists finished together, and the winner was determined by a bunch sprint.

The Dilecta-Wolber team won the first stage, led by Francis Pélissier, who was the first leader of the general classification.

[3] In stage 8, the Dilecta team lost more than one hour, and they saw nothing left to win, and abandoned the race.

At the end of stage 9, when the first group of team-time-trials stopped, there were only 57 cyclists left in the race,[3] 35 of which were touriste-routiers, and only 22 had sponsors.

The only exception was the 23rd stage, where De Waele lost more than half an hour, but his margin to the third-placed rider was large enough.

The organing newspaper, l'Auto named a meilleur grimpeur (best climber), an unofficial precursor to the modern King of the Mountains competition.