Le Tour: A History of the Tour de France, 1903-2003Simon and Schuster, 2004 - 389 pagina's 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. |
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Sowing the Seed 19031908 | 15 |
To the Mountains 19091914 | 31 |
Braves Belges 19191924 | 61 |
Convicts of the Road 19251929 | 76 |
French Renaissance 19301934 | 101 |
Raisons Politiques 19351939 | 116 |
Italian Duel 19471951 | 140 |
Bobet Divides France 19521957 | 156 |
Merckx Devours the Field 19681973 | 211 |
Heart and Nerve and Sinew 19741980 | 225 |
The Yanks Are Coming 19811987 | 249 |
Indurain in Excelsis 19881994 | 264 |
The American Enemy 19992002 | 298 |
Epilogue | 309 |
Some Tour Words | 333 |
Some Tour Books | 339 |
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22 stages abandoned Alavoine Alps Anquetil Armstrong Aubisque Bahamontes Ballon d'Alsace Bartali Belgian Belgium bicycle bike racing Bobet Bordeaux Bottecchia Briançon Brittany Buysse century champion Champs-Elysées climb Coppi crashed cycling cyclists Delgado Desgrange directeur sportif Eddy Merckx English escape Faber field Fignon finish football Frantz French rider Frs Winner Galibier Garrigou Georget Giro Green Jersey Grenoble Hinault Induráin International Challenge Italian Jalabert Jean July June kilometres Lanterne rouge Lapébie Lapize later Le Vésinet lead Leducq LeMond longest Luchon Maes Magne maillot maillot jaune Merckx minutes ahead Mont Ventoux Mountains prize never Normandy Ocaña Parc des Princes Paris Pélissier peloton Petit-Breton Poulidor prize money Prologue punctured Pyrenees reached ridden riding road Robic rode shortest sport sprint Sylvère Maes Team prize team-mate Thévenet Tour de France Tourmalet trial Ullrich victory Vietto Virenque win the Tour won the stage yellow jersey Zoetemelk