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Loading... Chasing Lance: The 2005 Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's Ride of a Lifetime (with 20 photos included)by Martin Dugard
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. What an amazing sporting event - easy to watch bits on TV late at night in July without understanding the complexities and dramas that are involved - an excellent book - many anecodtes about the race, the cyclists, the journalists and numerous other hangers-on, as well as a potted description of each area of France the 2005 Tour covered with a very handy map at the front of the book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
In July 2005, over twenty million spectators flocked to France to see if anyone could beat Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France. Among them were hundreds of thousands of Americans - men of a certain age and financial status, mostly - who see the Tour as the ultimate buddy getaway, a jaunt replete with fine wines, delicious meals and lazy mornings under the Provencal sun. There were also huge clumps of Germans, Spaniards, Italians, Dutch - basically every country in Europe, a mini-UN that packed the fields and small towns along the way, showing how one can be drunk in 13 different languages. A unique combination of travelogue, humour and insider cycling critique (complete with interviews and insights from Armstrong), CHASING LANCE will be the only book to bring into focus the entire Tour experience. For those who love Peter Mayle's tales of Provence, this will be a wonderful book about France. For those who love John Feinstein, this will be a wonderful book about sport and for those who love great writing, CHASING LANCE will enthrall and entertain. No library descriptions found. |
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