Description |
285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
Le Tour de France : the people's race : foreword / by Bernard Hinault -- Le Tour de France : cycling's biggest race : preface / by Stephen Roche -- 'We run on dynamite' : the men who made the Tour -- The 100 greatest stages. The first years of the Tour, 1903-1914 ; The 'dynamite' years, 1919-1929 ; Pre-WWII, 1930-1939 ; The Louison Bobet, MaƮtre Jacques, and Eddy Merckx years, 1947-1975 ; The Bernard Hinault years : the last champion of the old school, 1965-1988 ; The Miguel Indurain phenomenon, 1989-1995 ; The Lance Armstrong era, 1996-2005 ; The Tour today, 2006-2013 -- The atlas of 100 Tours. |
Subject |
Tour de France (Bicycle race) -- History.
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Added Author |
Cossins, Peter.
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Added Title |
Tour de France one hundred |
ISBN |
1844037428 |
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9781844037421 |
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