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- English
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About this book
What if all the best Tour stages happened in one race? In Etape, critically acclaimed author Richard Moore weaves first-person interviews with cycling's great riders to assemble a "dream team" of the best Tour de France stages in modern history.What if all the best Tour stages happened in one race? In Etape, critically acclaimed author Richard Moore weaves first-person interviews with cycling's great riders to assemble a "dream team" of the best Tour de France stages in modern history.Featuring exclusive interviews with the Tour's legends and scoundrels about their best-ever day on the bike (and their most heartbreaking defeats), Moore unravels lingering mysteries and recounts strange tales from 20 great stages of the Tour: LeMond's impossible return from near-death, Schleck's primal scream atop the Galibier, Merckx's self-described toughest Tour, Cav's mind-bending victory in Aubenas, Hinault's hellish battle with Fignon.Etape assembles the greatest days of modern Tour history into a Tour de France of incredible victory, glorious failure, shocking revelation, and beautiful memories. In the words of those who were there, Etape recreates each day vividly and reveals the beauty and the madness of cycling's greatest race.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Outsider
- Chapter 2: Beware of the Badger
- Chapter 3: The Bulldog
- Chapter 4: The Sculptor
- Chapter 5: The Boy with Fire in his Eyes
- Chapter 6: For Fabio
- Chapter 7: Dutch Cold War
- Chapter 8: Trilogy
- Chapter 9: Guerrilla Warfare
- Chapter 10: Anarchy
- Chapter 11: The Devil
- Chapter 12: Shock and Awe
- Chapter 13: What about Zimmy?
- Chapter 14: The Unknown Warrior
- Chapter 15: Champagne Freddy
- Chapter 16: Honor among Thieves
- Chapter 17: Untold Stories
- Chapter 18: Playstation Cycling
- Chapter 19: Redemption
- Chapter 20: La Résurrection
- Acknowledgments