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The Story Of The Tour De France
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Author : Bill McGann
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2008-07
The Story Of The Tour De France written by Bill McGann and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with Bicycle racing categories.
What they are saying about The Story of the Tour de France: After forty years of study on the subject, I can with some confidence say Bill and Carol McGann's The Story of the Tour de France is the finest such work ever produced in the English language, and perhaps in any. Most of my preferred references are in French, one runs to over 800 pages, yet the McGanns' opus revealed information new to me in almost every paragraph. Their research has been not only impeccable, but insightful. -Owen Mulholland, author of Uphill Battle and Cycling's Golden Age The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World by Bill and Carol McGann is a must read. -Road Bike Action Magazine For any historian of the sport the McGanns'Tour de France history is essential reading. Details of the stages and the riders are not glossed over. For those who are new to the sport, the McGanns bring the glory days of the sport alive with the intrigue that still exists today. Epic stages that might have faded into oblivion are eloquently recounted so that future generation of cyclists will know the rich history of our beautiful sport. -Neil Browne, editor, Road Magazine Besides towering over all bicycle races, the Tour de France endures for its unique Gaulic character, like Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. The McGanns' passionate and insightful writing evokes the raucous cast of riders, promoters, and journalists thrusting through highs and lows worthy of opera. This volume stands out as a must-read book for anyone seeking to appreciate cycling's race of races. -Peter Joffre Nye, author of The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz Age Sport and Hearts of Lions Volume 1 of The Story of the Tour de France concluded with Jacques Anquetil's record setting fifth Tour win. Volume 2 opens with the greatest Italian racer of the modern age, Felice Gimondi and his effortless victory at the young age of 22. Despite his extraordinary talent, he never won the Tour again. Starting in 1969, Eddy Merckx began his run of 5 victories. Bernard Hinault, who also managed to win 5, followed him. Unable to fulfill his destiny as a likely 5-time winner because of a hunting accident, LeMond won the Tour 3 times. LeMond's era was followed by the remarkable Spaniard Miguel Indurain, the first man to win the Tour 5 times in a row. The late 1990s were a time of extreme crisis for the Tour as the culture of doping within the professional cycling community erupted into the scandal of 1998. The Story of the Tour de France deals with this episode at length. Emerging from a near-fatal bout of cancer, Lance Armstrong went on to do what no other rider in the Tour's long history had ever been able to accomplish, win the Tour 7 times. Following Armstrong's retirement, the Tour was again seized by scandal, this time Floyd Landis' disqualification for drugs after winning the 2006 Tour. The book concludes with the story of the 2007 Tour, followed by a quest for the greatest ever Tour de France rider and an epilogue that explains the reasons for the extraordinary success of the Tour. Bill and Carol McGann have had their lives inextricably tied up with bicycles about as long as they can remember. Their first date was a bike ride. Bill, formerly a Category 1 racer, has been a contributor to several cycling magazines and is widely acknowledged as an expert on road bikes and cycling history. Since his father gave him a small 1-speed English lightweight bicycle when he was 5 years old, Bill has been in love with everything about bikes. Carol, a former college biology instructor is also an accomplished rider, having cycle-toured extensively. Together they started Torelli Imports in 1981, a firm specializing in high-performance cycle equipment.
The Tour De France
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Author : Christopher S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-07-17
The Tour De France written by Christopher S. Thompson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-17 with History categories.
"Shows that sport has been for us moderns the ultimate tabula rasa into which we pour our hopes, fears, prejudices and self-interest."—Robert A. Nye, author of Crime, Madness, & Politics in Modern France and Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France "A true gem of a book. A terrific scholar and an engaging writer."—Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist and Empty Meeting Grounds "A major new interpretation of France's most famous sporting event. For the first time the Tour de France has been fully and carefully placed within the wider context of French history."—Richard Holt, author of Sport and Society in Modern France and Sport and the British "Chris Thompson has written an engaging, nicely-paced account of France's world-famous cycle race: his writing is lively and full of detail and excitement. But he has done much more than simply narrate the story of the Tour. His book sets the race—its history, its participants and its meaning—firmly in its shifting national and cultural contexts. The sections dealing with professional cycling as a form of labor and with the Tour's place in France's troubled twentieth century are absolutely first-rate: insightful and original. This is the best history of the Tour that we have and are likely to have for many years, a work of scholarship that deserves to find a broad general readership."—Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
The Story Of The Tour De France
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Author : Bill McGann
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2006-07
The Story Of The Tour De France written by Bill McGann and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07 with Bicycle racing categories.
Tour De France
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Author : Christopher S. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-03-08
Tour De France written by Christopher S. Thompson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event including posters, songs, novels, films, and media coverage Thompson links the history of the Tour to key moments and themes in French history. Examining the enduring popularity of Tour racers, Thompson explores how their public images have changed over the past century. A new preface explores the long-standing problem of doping in light of recent scandals.
Le Tour A History Of The Tour De France
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Author : Geoffrey Wheatcroft
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-06-20
Le Tour A History Of The Tour De France written by Geoffrey Wheatcroft and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-20 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft's hugely entertaining and well researched history of the Tour de France is already established as the definitive account of cycling's greatest event. Since the book was last published in 2007, much has changed. Bradley Wiggins' historic victory in 2012 - the first Briton ever to secure the yellow jersey - brought him a knighthood and garnered more interest in the race than ever before. Yet the months after were dominated by an even bigger story, as Tour legend and seven-time winner Lance Armstrong was stripped of his titles and confessed on Oprah to doping in each of his victories. Suddenly, everything that we thought we knew had happened was no longer true. In this new and comprehensively revised edition of the book, Wheatcroft not only brings his story of the Tour fully up to date to mark the race's 100th running in 2013, he also reflects on the changes brought about by the scandals that have rocked the sport to its core. Yet for all the controversies of modern times, he vividly captures the essential glory and romance of the heroes who battle to conquer one of sport's greatest challenges.
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Author : Les Woodland
language : en
Publisher: McGann Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2014-05
Tour De France written by Les Woodland and has been published by McGann Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05 with History categories.
Tour de France: The Inside Story The Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it -began as a humble promotional gimmick for a floundering newspaper. More than 100 years later the Tour still captivates the world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men looking for some way to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? Les Woodland tells the inside story of the Tour de France through the prism of the men who started it, and those who now run it. As he explores the creation and evolution of the Tour, he never runs out of those fascinating illustrative tales that make his books impossible to put down. This book was originally published in a slightly altered form in 2009 as Tourmen: The Men Who Made the Tour de France. It has been updated to reflect the events that have happened since the original publication. About the author: Les Woodland has been cycling for 50 years and has been writing about cycling since 1965, when he wrote his first reports for the British publication Cycling. Since then he has been a prolific contributor to newspapers, magazines and radio stations in the U.K. and Belgium. Mr. Woodland, who currently lives in France, speaks several of the languages of cycling: English, Dutch and French."
Etape The Untold Stories Of The Tour De France S Defining Stages
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Author : Richard Moore
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Etape The Untold Stories Of The Tour De France S Defining Stages written by Richard Moore and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In ETAPE, critically acclaimed author Richard Moore will take readers on a virtual Tour de France, with each chapter focusing on a single rider in a single stage that came to define the Tour’s history.
The Story Of The Tour De France Volume 2
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Author : Bill McGann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-17
The Story Of The Tour De France Volume 2 written by Bill McGann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-17 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Volume 1 of "The Story of The Tour de France" concluded with Bernard Thevenet's winning the 1975 edition, marking the end of Eddy Merckx's dominance of the Tour. Volume 2 opens with the Bernard Hinault's masterful racing in a Tour era deeply troubled by doping and the Tour's declining financial position.Unable to fulfill his destiny as a likely 5-time winner because of a hunting accident, Greg LeMond still won the Tour three times. LeMond's Era was followed by the remarkable Spaniard Miguel Indurain, the first man to win the tour five times in a rowThe late 1990s were a time of extreme crises for the Tour as the culture of doping within the professional cycling community erupted into the scandal of 1998. "The Story of the Tour de France" deals with this episode at length.The Lance Armstrong era followed and until he was stripped of his victories for doping, Armstrong had done what no other rider had done before, win the Tour seven times. The Tour dealt with all these problems and seemed to emerge stronger than ever, with a new cohort of riders racing at slower speeds than the riders of just a few years before. Though the racing was cleaner and better, questions still remain.The book concludes with the story of the 2018 Tour, followed by a quest for the greatest-ever Tour de France rider and an epilogue explaining the reason for the Tour extraordinary success.
Tourmen
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Author : Les Woodland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-05-24
Tourmen written by Les Woodland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-24 with Bicycle racing categories.
The Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick for a floundering newspaper. More than 100 years later the Tour still captivates the world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men looking for some way to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? To learn the answer Les Woodland examines the race through the prism of the men who started Tour de France, and those who now run it. As he explores the creation and evolution of the Tour, he never runs out of those fascinating illustrative tales that make his books impossible to put down.
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Author : Peter Cossins
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-06-08
Butcher Blacksmith Acrobat Sweep written by Peter Cossins and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
From the winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Cycling Book of the Year 2018 The first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating. Its riders included characters like Maurice Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman, said to have been swapped for a round of cheese by his parents in order to smuggle him into France to clean chimneys as a teenager, Hippolyte Aucouturier with his trademark handlebar moustache, and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had never raced before. Would this ramshackle pack of cyclists draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes? Surprisingly it did, and, all thanks to a marketing ruse dreamed up to revive struggling newspaper L'Auto, cycling would never be the same again. Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France, painting a nuanced portrait of France in the early 1900s, to see where the greatest sporting event of all began.