***'Paris, 4 July 2003: My first Tour de France.*** *I had never seen a bike race. I had only vaguely heard of Lance Armstrong. I had no idea what I was doing there. Yet, that day I was broadcasting live on television. I fumbled my way through a few platitudes, before summing up with the words, "...
Tour de France How Cav Won the Green Jersey: Short Dispatches from the 2011
โ Scribed by Boulting, Ned
- Book ID
- 108901410
- Publisher
- Random House
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 549 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781448129386
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
This is not a 100,000-word, minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow account of the 2011 Tour de France.
This is not the story of Cadel Evans.
This is not the story of Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck, or Bradley Wiggins.
And it's not even the story of Mark Cavendish.
(Although he is in it quite a lot.)
This is the story of the lesser-known heroes; the Johnny Hoogerlands, the Thomas Voecklers, the hitchhikers, the maniac press drivers, Norbert Dentressangle and the greatest ever Tour de France
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I was there. And this is what I saw. That is all.
In this 20,000-word digital short, ITV's Ned Boulting, author of How I Won the Yellow Jumper , takes an honest and idiosyncratic look at the unforgettable 2011 Tour de France, when Mark Cavendish won the Green Jersey.
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