This guide to the Tour de France includes the name and age of every stage winner, every mountain and the first to top them, a complete list of all the stage finishes since the race began, as well as all the unknown stories. This includes the rider forced to crawl along the finish line in search of his glass eye, the exhausted man who hitched a ride on the back of a donkey, the Tour star denied his yellow jersey hours after he'd won it, and the journeyman competitor who never got to wear his because someone drove away with it.
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This definitive work of reference on the Tour de France, which celebrates its centenary year in 2003, tells you everything you?ve ever wanted to know about this great sporting event.
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Les Woodland has been writing about cycling since 1966. He joined the staff of Cycling in 1970 and has made a speciality since then of informing his readers not just of the names, results and races but the human dramas that lie behind them. This is fifth book.
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Why would a man publish a picture of himself in the shower? Because this isn't an ordinary shower. It's one of the showers in which riders wash away the blood, grime and exhaustion at the end of Paris-Roubaix.
I've been a writer ever since my mother told me it was no fit job for a grown man. That, of course, was all the incentive I needed and I joined the staff of Cycling in its greatest days. And I've carried on writing ever since, a job I recommend because it rarely demands going out in the rain for hours. Unlike cycling, where it seems to happen an awful lot.
I've spent all my life unearthing strange stories and personalities behind the world's greatest and oddest sport. It's been a huge pleasure.
People seem to expect this sort of thing, so... I'm French, I live near Toulouse, I never much troubled judges at the end of road races beyond making them stand around in the cold when they wanted to go home, and I have thinning hair.
I've been a writer ever since my mother told me it was no fit job for a grown man. That, of course, was all the incentive I needed and I joined the staff of Cycling in its greatest days. And I've carried on writing ever since, a job I recommend because it rarely demands going out in the rain for hours. Unlike cycling, where it seems to happen an awful lot.
I've spent all my life unearthing strange stories and personalities behind the world's greatest and oddest sport. It's been a huge pleasure.
People seem to expect this sort of thing, so... I'm French, I live near Toulouse, I never much troubled judges at the end of road races beyond making them stand around in the cold when they wanted to go home, and I have thinning hair.
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This review is from: The Yellow Jersey Companion to the Tour de France (Paperback)
This book is organized like a dictionary/encyclopedia, so it lends itself to use as a reference book or bathroom reading material. I find myself referring others to sections to help them understand the details of the Tour.Les provides his bit of journalistically-opinionated spice to the people and aspects that make the Tour-de-France what it was and is. It gets four out of five stars because it is now several years old, so it lacks the most recent drama of The Tour.
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