Tour de France: The History, the Legend, the Riders

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Year: 1999
Pages: 296
Binding Paperback
ISBN 1840186763

Product Code: 756786525

Description

Graeme Fife (au). It is one of sport’s toughest ordeals & the ultimate test for professional cyclists. The Tour de France sees riders pitted against all kinds of terrain & weather, in unrelenting competition with their rivals for 3 weeks. This book gives a compelling insight into the mystique of the race & the unique fascination it has always exercised on devoted bike fans. It tells of great solo rides, amazing fortitude, terrible misfortune & triumph over the odds from the race’s remarkable history, which began in July 1903. Within a few years, the Tour was taking the riders across the mountains of the Alps & Pyrenees. Paints a colorful & memorable picture of the men whose exploits have given the Tour an enduring universal appeal. Photos.

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