The Tour de France: 100 Years: The Official Centennial - Rilegato

Equipe, L'

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0297843583 ISBN 13: 9780297843580

Casa editrice: W&N, 2003

Riassunto

The Tour de France is the world's largest annual sporting event with worldwide audience figures only exceeded by the Olympics and the Football World Cup. Yet its first edition in 1903 was little more than an outlandish publicity stunt staged by L'Auto newspaper to increase its circulation throughout France. But by the end of the century, no single sporting event could compare for excitement, passion and adventure - not to mention sheer physical difficulty - and few could claim to have had such a fascinating and even turbulent history. Year by year, this book chronicles the first one hundred years of the Tour, and more importantly, captures its spirit. It draws on an unprecedented wealth of photography and journalism from L'Equipe's archives.

'The history of the Tour is a huge history, with fantastic, epic stories. I'm just one of the actors on the stage of TDF history. . . looking at the photos and history of the 100 years of the Tour I was able to learn this history'

- Lance Armstrong

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Descrizione del libro

The official chronicle of one hundred years of the world's toughest race: the route maps, the riders, the bicycles, the moutains, the epic battles and the scandals of every Tour between 1903 and 2002.

L'autore

L'Equipe is France's premier sports newspaper. In 1903 it founded the Tour de France and its archives contain the world's most complete record of the race.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0297843583
• ISBN 13: 9780297843580
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 360