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A race for madmen: the extraordinary history of the Tour de France

By Chris , Sidwells

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers;HarperSport
ISBN
9780007511006, 9780007441518, 0007511000
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
31 MB (32744418 bytes)
Edition
Updated edition
Pages
346 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustr
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Bicycle racing--France--History;Bicycle racing;His

Description

No sporting event has had its past and present, its highs and lows so intricately entwined with those of a country like the Tour has with France. The Tour de France is the biggest annual sporting event in the world, and at the same time it transcends sport. This book examines the Tour's extraordinary history, and how a bike race, a simple sporting contest, captured the imagination of a country, then a continent and then the world, while at the same time it has stayed uniquely French, even though a Frenchman hasn't won it for over 20 years.

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