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The Tour Is Won on the Alpe: Alpe d'Huez and the Classic Battles of the Tour de France (Photography)

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This book is a fun read to get some basic history on Alpe d'Huez, but some of the facts, especially on Lance Armstrong, are wrong. Also, there are a couple of chapters that have contradictory "facts". I think that the results in back are correct, but I do not know for sure and finding at least two things that are not correct make me question the stuff I do not know for sure.

The two things I am referring to are that the author states that Armstrong announced in 1995 that he had testicular cancer, but that did not happen until 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics. The other mistake is that the author states that Armstrong won the world championship in '94 when in fact he won it in '93 during his first year as a pro, and I believe the youngest person at the time to win the world road racing championship, but again I could be worng on that.

With that said, I have enjoyed reading the book and hope that these were just two small editing errors that will be addressed in later editions. As a fan of the tour and especially Alpe d'Huez, I love to see a history of the stage in all of its forms.