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In the world of professional cycling, the Tour de France offers the biggest prize imaginable. It also offers the most intense challenge of any sport, requiring the greatest exertion possible simply to compete. An almost inhuman effort is needed to win le Tour, one of the most gruelling, exacting and exciting events of the world’s sporting calendar. No other contest quite matches le Tour for the amount of individual and teamwork expended over its course.
Le Tour offers a stunning visual journey through the first century of this epic race. In the process, it also provides a unique glimpse of the changing face of France through the 20th century. Packed with images of the great and the good competitors, Le Tour also features photographs of the winners, from the very first – the ‘Little Chimney Sweep’ , Frenchman Maurice Garin – to the last, American four-time successive Tour winner Lance Armstrong.
As well as picturing the riders, the images portray all aspects of the life of le Tour, from road-side spectators to the competitors at rest and play, from the graffiti etched on mountain roads by ardent fans to the majestic scenery of a beautiful country. There are photographs of dramatic finishes and calamitous starts, of the successive generations of French automobiles that have carried the race teams and of the spectacular mountain backdrops as the peloton races by. The whole of history and life of le Tour is here.
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