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Author | : Hugh Dauncey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135762392 |
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This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. This study provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting, cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means, now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling itself.
Author | : Geoffrey Wheatcroft |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780684028798 |
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When Henri Desgrange began a new bicycle road race in 1903, he saw it as little more than a temporary publicity stunt to promote his newspaper. The sixty cyclists who left Paris to ride through the night to Lyons that first July had little idea they were pioneers of the most famous of all bike races, which would reach its centenary as one of the greatest sporting events on earth. Geoffrey Wheatcroft's masterly history of the Tour de France's first hundred years is not just a hugely entertaining canter through some great Tour stories; nor is it merely a homage to the riders whose names -- Coppi, Simpson, Mercx, Armstrong -- are synonymous with the event's folly and glory; focusing too on the race's role in French cultural life it provides a unique and fascinating insight into Europe's twentieth century.
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Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2003 |
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ISBN | : 9780714682976 |
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Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Lance Armstrong |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781841882390 |
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'The history of the Tour is a huge history, with fantastic, epic stories. I'm just one of the actors on the stage of TDF history. . . looking at the photos and history of the 100 years of the Tour I was able to learn this history'- Lance Armstrong (5-times winner)The Tour de France is the world's largest annual sporting event with worldwide audience figures only exceeded by the Olympics and the Football World Cup. Yet its first edition in 1903 was little more than an outlandish publicity stunt staged by L'Auto newspaper to increase its circulation throughout France. But by the end of the century, no single sporting event could compare for excitement, passion and adventure - not to mention sheer physical difficulty - and few could claim to have had such a fascinating and even turbulent history. Year by year, this book chronicles the first one hundred years of the Tour capturing its true spirit. It draws on an unprecedented wealth of photography and journalism from L'Equipe's archives.
Author | : Hugh Dauncey |
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Total Pages | : 280 |
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Author | : James Startt |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780811839068 |
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To celebrate the 100th Tour de France anniversary in 2003, weve fully updated and reissued Tour de France/Tour de Force in paperback. Arranged chronologically and illustrated with hundreds of photographs dating back to the first race in 1903, Tour de France/Tour de Force offers a one-of-a-kind look at the Tours history. Tour insider James Startt shares stories of ingenuity (when Francois Fabers chain broke in the last kilometer of the 1909 Tour, he simply ran his bike across the finish line), tragedy (Tom Simpson collapsing and dying on the climb up Mont Ventoux in 1967), and triumph (Lance Armstrongs first of four consecutive victories after his battle with cancervictories that created a huge upsurge of interest in the sport). With an introduction by three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond, Tour de France/Tour de Force is the perfect way for fans everywhere to revel in the greatest bike race on earth.
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Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2003 |
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ISBN | : 9780714653624 |
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