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Release : 2003
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Book Synopsis The Tour de France 1903-2002 by :
Download or read book The Tour de France 1903-2002 written by . This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Dauncey
Release : 2004-08-02
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Tour De France, 1903-2003 by : Hugh Dauncey
Download or read book The Tour De France, 1903-2003 written by Hugh Dauncey. This book was released on 2004-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Startt
Release : 2007-09
Genre : Tour de France (Bicycle race)
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Book Synopsis Tour de France by : James Startt
Download or read book Tour de France written by James Startt. This book was released on 2007-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the 100th birthday in 2003 of the legendary Tour de France bicycle race -- & the world¿s biggest annual sporting event. Arranged chronologically & illus. with hundreds of wonderfully evocative photos dating back to the Tour¿s beginning in 1903, this book documents the great victories & the harrowing disasters, the glory & the agony of this amazing competition. From the astounding stories of the cyclists who looped around France on rudimentary two-wheelers to the modern tactics & winning moves employed in recent races, the drama of the Tour comes to life here. Features full race results from 1903 through 2002. Special sections on the evolution of the Tour de France bike & the controversial issue of performance-enhancing drugs.
Author : Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 798/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Le Tour by : Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Download or read book Le Tour written by Geoffrey Wheatcroft. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Christopher S. Thompson
Release : 2008-03-08
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis Tour de France by : Christopher S. Thompson
Download or read book Tour de France written by Christopher S. Thompson. This book was released on 2008-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
