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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.

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.

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.

One Hundred Years Of Tour De France 1903 2013

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

One Hundred Years Of Tour De France 1903 2013 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Cycling categories.

The First Tour De France

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Author : Peter Cossins
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-06-06

The First Tour De France written by Peter Cossins and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with Sports & Recreation categories.

From its inception, the 1903 Tour de France was a colorful affair. Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, it was a race to be remembered. Cyclists of the time weren't enthusiastic about participating in this "heroic" race on roads more suited to hooves than wheels, with bikes weighing up to thirty-five pounds, on a single fixed gear, for three full weeks. Assembling enough riders for the race meant paying unemployed amateurs from the suburbs of Paris, including a butcher, a chimney sweep and a circus acrobat. From Maurice "The White Bulldog" Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman whose parents were said to have swapped him for a round of cheese in order to smuggle him into France as a fourteen-year-old, to Hippolyte Aucouturier, who looked like a villain from a Buster Keaton movie with his jersey of horizontal stripes and handlebar moustache, the cyclists were a remarkable bunch. Starting in the Parisian suburb of Montgeron, the route took the intrepid cyclists through Lyon, over the hills to Marseille, then on to Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Nantes, ending with great fanfare at the Parc des Princes in Paris. There was no indication that this ramshackle cycling pack would draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes. But they did; and all thanks to a marketing ruse, cycling would never be the same again.