| The Tour Is Won on the Alpe: Alpe d'Huez and the Classic Battles of the Tour de France (Photography) | 
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Category: Book
Author: Jean-paul Vespini
Publisher: VeloPress
Studio: VeloPress
Manufacturer: VeloPress
Label: VeloPress
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1934030236
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.620944
EAN: 9781934030233
ASIN: 1934030236
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
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Product Description
L'Alpe d'Huez represents the pinnacle of cycling achievement, and has served as the penultimate hurdle for competitors in the Tour de France 25 times since 1952. With21 hairpin turns and an average gradient of 8.1 percent, L'Alpe d'Huez stands as a legendary rite of passage. In this authoritative book, cycling historian Jean-Paul Vespini describes the experience of this remarkable challenge, and recounts the ascents of many cycling legends, including Fausto Coppi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Pedro Delgado, Miguel Indurain, Marco Pantani, Greg Lemond, and Lance Armstrong. Weaving these feats of athleticism with little-known cycling lore and full-color photography, this fascinating history embodies the most treasured aspect of Le Tour: physical prowess and determination.
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Great read but questionable history. December 23, 2008
This book is a fun read to get some basic history on Alpe d'Huez, but some of the facts, especially on Lance Armstrong, are wrong. Also, there are a couple of chapters that have contradictory "facts". I think that the results in back are correct, but I do not know for sure and finding at least two things that are not correct make me question the stuff I do not know for sure.
The two things I am referring to are that the author states that Armstrong announced in 1995 that he had testicular cancer, but that did not happen until 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics. The other mistake is that the author states that Armstrong won the world championship in '94 when in fact he won it in '93 during his first year as a pro, and I believe the youngest person at the time to win the world road racing championship, but again I could be worng on that.
With that said, I have enjoyed reading the book and hope that these were just two small editing errors that will be addressed in later editions. As a fan of the tour and especially Alpe d'Huez, I love to see a history of the stage in all of its forms.
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