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Blazing Saddles: The Cruel and Unusual History of the Tour de France
Matt Rendell
VeloPress
, 2008 - 320 pages
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This is a fun read for the anecdotes and characters - I thoroughly enjoyed it - but it needs a bit more to link through as a full story.
I still recommend it, even if you don't know a lot about cycling. I'm still bombing around on a 30 year old Gitane.
In this fascinating book, award-winning sports writer Matt Rendell covers every corner of "La Grande Boucle," from the eccentric couture of the first
Tour winner
(white blazer, black trousers, wool socks) to the earliest method of cheating (riding the train).
Blazing
Saddles recounts
the famous rivalries and riders that contested the Tour, setting the score straight with complete records of every podium finisher. Rendell's vivid storytelling is complemented with more than 100 classic black-and-white photographs, portraying cycling's heroes and martyrs from Jacques Anquetil to Lance Armstrong.
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