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Le Tour
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Author : Geoffrey Wheatcroft
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2004
Le Tour 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 2004 with History categories.
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.
The Tour De France 1903 2003
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Author : Hugh Dauncey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
The Tour De France 1903 2003 written by Hugh Dauncey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with Social Science categories.
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.
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The Official Tour De France Centennial 1903 2003
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Author : Lance Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Release Date : 2004
The Official Tour De France Centennial 1903 2003 written by Lance Armstrong and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Sports & Recreation categories.
'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.
Tour De France Tour De Force
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Author : James Startt
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2003-04-01
Tour De France Tour De Force written by James Startt and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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.
French Cycling
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Author : Hugh Dauncey
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
French Cycling written by Hugh Dauncey and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
French Cycling: a Social and Cultural History aims to provide a balanced and detailed analytical survey of the complex leisure activity, sport, and industry that is cycling in France. Identifying key events, practices, stakeholders and institutions in the history of French cycling, the volumepresents an interdisciplinary analysis of how cycling has been significant in French society and culture since the late Nineteenth century. Cycling as Leisure is considered through reference to the adoption of the bicycle as an instrument of tourism and emancipation by women in the 1880s, forexample, or by study of the development in the 1990s of long-distance tourist cycle routes. Cycling as Sport and its attendant dimensions of amateurism/professionalism, national identity, the body and doping, and other issues is investigated through study of the history of the Tour de France, the track-racing organised at the Velodrome d'hiver in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and otheremblematic events. Cycling as Industry and economic activity is considered through an assessment of how cycling firms have contributed to technological innovation at various junctures in France's economic development. Cycling and the Media is investigated through analysis of how cyclesport hascontributed to developments in the French press (in early decades) but also to new trends in television and radio coverage of sports events. Based on a very wide range of primary and secondary sources, the volume aims to present in clear language an explanation of the varied significance of cyclingin France over the last hundred years.
Blazing Saddles
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Author : Matt Rendell
language : en
Publisher: Quercus Books
Release Date : 2008
Blazing Saddles written by Matt Rendell and has been published by Quercus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Bicycle racing categories.
Few sporting contests have roused such blind passions and filthy suspicions as the Tour de France. From Lance Armstrong's incredible comeback from cancer, to Tom Simpson's death on the slopes of Mont Ventoux, the Tour has been the stage for some of sport's most monumental triumphs and the scene of some of its darkest hours. Since Maurice Garin's inaugural victory in 1903, hundreds of thousands of kilometres have been covered in pursuit of the yellow jersey - cycling's holy grail - and few have been without incident or drama. Blazing Saddles is a no-holds-barred look at the wheeling and dealing, the rivalries and controversies that have given the century-old race its unique colour. Matt Rendell's vivid and entertaining narrative chronologically combines the Tour's golden legends with tales from its dark side, capturing the capture the indomitable, inimitable spirit of the world's greatest race.
100 Highlights Tour De France
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Author : Beate Boßdorf
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
100 Highlights Tour De France written by Beate Boßdorf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Le Tour
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Author : Jeremy Whittle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Le Tour written by Jeremy Whittle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The Tour de France is one of the most gruelling, exacting and exciting events of the world's sporting calendar. This is a visual guide to the race, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2003. The images in the book cover all aspects of the life of le Tour, from road-side spectators to competitors, marshals and the majestic scenery of a beautiful country. It includes a foreword by a prominent Tour competitor.