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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 60 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 20th century.
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Recensione:
'Wheatcroft documents cycling's blue riband within the mileu of world and European history and with the spirit and endeavour of an honest Johnny-come-lately cycling enthusiast' IRISH TIMES
'A canter through some great Tour stories, and also gives a fascinating insight into how the Tour pervaded the culture of a nation' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘Don’t pick on the Tour: this is a golden age for corruption in so many sports’
Comment piece
Guardian 9/7
‘Tour de Farce’
Article by Geoffrey
Observer Sport Monthly July issue
‘Le Tour camouflages Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s fine understanding of the intricacies and intrigue of the most obsessional sporting event known to mankind. He accompanies a century of rippling calves, multi-bike pile-ups, performance-enhancing drugs and untimely death, with sideways glances at what else is going on in the real world...this is a clever book; the narrative of the Tour is as remorseless, as unending, as up and down, and as accident prone as the grinding race itself’
Financial Times Magazine 7/7
‘First published in 2003 to celebrate the Tour de France’s centenary, Yo, Blair! Author Geoffrey Wheatcroft has updated Le Tour to include its 2007 London leg and the latter half of the Armstrong winning streak’
Observer 1/7
L'autore:
'A canter through some great Tour stories, and also gives a fascinating insight into how the Tour pervaded the culture of a nation' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘Don’t pick on the Tour: this is a golden age for corruption in so many sports’
Comment piece
Guardian 9/7
‘Tour de Farce’
Article by Geoffrey
Observer Sport Monthly July issue
‘Le Tour camouflages Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s fine understanding of the intricacies and intrigue of the most obsessional sporting event known to mankind. He accompanies a century of rippling calves, multi-bike pile-ups, performance-enhancing drugs and untimely death, with sideways glances at what else is going on in the real world...this is a clever book; the narrative of the Tour is as remorseless, as unending, as up and down, and as accident prone as the grinding race itself’
Financial Times Magazine 7/7
‘First published in 2003 to celebrate the Tour de France’s centenary, Yo, Blair! Author Geoffrey Wheatcroft has updated Le Tour to include its 2007 London leg and the latter half of the Armstrong winning streak’
Observer 1/7
Geoffrey Wheatcroft is a journalist and historian, a former literary editor of the SPECTATOR and 'Londoner's Diary' editor of the EVENING STANDARD, whose book THE CONTROVERSY OF ZION won an American National Jewish Book Award.
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