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An inside look at the 2003 Tour de France through the eyes of Lance Armstrong’s right-hand rider, Victor Hugo Peña–who also helped Armstrong ride to his unprecedented sixth victory in 2004. Peña served as Armstrong’s domestique, a crucial yet unsung position unique to cycling. The domestique handles a variety of tasks, but his most important is to ride ahead of the team leader, creating a wind tunnel that makes it aerodynamically easier for the “star” to continue pedaling. This is the essence of cycling, and the key to Armstrong’s victories. Now, in revealing the true role of the domestique for the first time, Matt Rendell gives a more vivid and insightful portrayal of professional cycling than ever before.
A Significant Other: Riding the Centenary Tour de France with Lance Armstrong
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One of sport’s toughest ordeals, the three-week Tour de France sees riders pitted against all kinds of terrain and weather in unrelenting competition with their rivals. In this updated edition, Graeme Fife sets the 2009 race in the context of the event’s remarkable history, which began in July 1903. Combining meticulous research with a fast-paced narrative style, he penetrates the mystique of the race and paints a colorful picture of the men whose exploits have given the Tour an enduring universal appeal. Tour de France: The History, The Legend, The Riders
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The Tour de France is one of the most revered, thrilling sporting events in the world, not to mention one of the most physically exhausting. Every year top cyclists from around the globe break speed records and push themselves harder and faster in pursuit of the legendary yellow jersey. Here is the ultimate guide to the competition’s heroes, cheats, controversy, extreme terrain, triumphs, and tragedy—on and off the trail. Now fully revised and updated, this is the essential companion to the awe-inspiring event, with a wealth of tales and trivia drawn from the Tour’s century-long history. Vive le Tour!: Amazing Tales of the Tour de France
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Today the Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick to increase circulation of a floundering Parisian sports newspaper. More than 100 years later the Tour captivates the entire world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men desperate to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? To learn the answer Les Woodland examines the race through the prism of the men who started Tour de France and those who run it now.
Woodland doesn’t leave it that. He also looks at the racers and how racing has changed over the years. Since 1986 Americans have been a dominant force in the Tour, having won 10 editions of the great race. But American cycle racing excellence wasn’t always a given unless one goes back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when, as Woodland puts it, “…for decades the greatest riders in the world were American and only when they had sorted out among themselves who was the best would they bother going to Europe to see if anybody there was worth beating.” With the great depression American bicycle racing suffered a long period of nearly total eclipse before a wonderful rebirth in the 1970s and ’80s. How all this came to be is just one of the fascinating threads within this wonderful book.
Woodland is more than an historian. He is a jolly and witty storyteller and therein lies the book’s charm. As he explores the creation and evolution of the Tour, he never runs out of those strange and beguiling tales that make his books impossible to put down.
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Today the Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick to increase circulation of a floundering Parisian sports newspaper. More than 100 years later the Tour captivates the entire world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men desperate to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? To learn the answer Les Woodland examines the race through the prism of the men who started Tour de France and those who run it now.
Woodland doesn’t leave it that. He also looks at the racers and how racing has changed over the years. Since 1986 Americans have been a dominant force in the Tour, having won 10 editions of the great race. But American cycle racing excellence wasn’t always a given unless one goes back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when, as Woodland puts it, “…for decades the greatest riders in the world were American and only when they had sorted out among themselves who was the best would they bother going to Europe to see if anybody there was worth beating.” With the great depression American bicycle racing suffered a long period of nearly total eclipse before a wonderful rebirth in the 1970s and ’80s. How all this came to be is just one of the fascinating threads within this wonderful book.
Woodland is more than an historian. He is a jolly and witty storyteller and therein lies the book’s charm. As he explores the creation and evolution of the Tour, he never runs out of those strange and beguiling tales that make his books impossible to put down.
Tourmen: The Men Who Made the Tour de France
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A thorough stage-by-stage account of the most contested Tour ever: 1978.
Tour de France: The 75th Anniversary Bicycle Race
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Rupert Guinness has been covering the Tour de France for over 20 years and in that time has watched Australian riders evolve into the collective force they are today. From the pioneering Phil Anderson, who, in the 1980s, set the mark by becoming the first Australian to claim the yellow jersey, to Cadel Evans, Guinness analyses the riders’ fortunes and misfortunes through his knowledge of and relationship with these extraordinary athletes. There are humorous and sadly tragic moments, heroes, and villains, and testing times when everything seems to go wrong. But there are also days of perfect riding, extraordinary scenery, and uplifting successes.
What a Ride: An Aussie Pursuit of the Tour de France
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For every way to ride, there s a bicycle to fit the need. An homage to the beauty of the bike, Cyclepedia showcases the innovations and legacies of bicycle design over the past century. Join longtime bike enthusiast and avid collector Michael Embacher for a tour of 100 bicycles, from the finest racing bikes and high-tech hybrids to the bizarrely specific (such as a bike designed to cycle on ice). Captivating photographs, detailed component lists, and anecdotal information illuminate the details that make each bicycle unique. Also including a foreword by cyclist and designer Paul Smith, Cyclepedia is the ultimate coffee-table book for devotees of the two-wheeled life.
Cyclepedia: A Century of Iconic Bicycle Design
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Taking place over twenty-three days in July and across more than 2,100 miles of smooth blacktop, rough cobblestones, and punishing mountain terrain, the Tour de France is the most grueling sports event in the world. And in 2004, five-time champion Lance Armstrong set out to achieve what no other cyclist in the 100-year history of the race had ever done: win a sixth Tour de France.Armstrong had four serious challengers who wanted nothing more than to deny the man the French call Le Boss from achieving his goal. The major threat among them was the only other former Tour de France champion in last year’s race, Germany’s Jan Ullrich- The Kaiser. But when the race was over, Lance Armstrong once again wore the yellow jersey of victory.
23 Days in July: Inside the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong’s Record-Breaking Victory
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A must for anyone who follows the Tour, this annual book recounts every aspect of the grueling road race, from the course and terrain, to the riders and their teams, to strategies, setbacks, and individual victories. It is complete with a course map (with elevations), personal anecdotes, and important race details from start to finish. This year’s edition commemorates the Tour de France centennial with historic photographs of the early days of the race and a recap of its evolution.
The 2003 Tour de France
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