The End of the Road
The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost Wrecked Cycling
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2017
Summary
The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar’s most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team’s soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French–Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there were riders’ strikes and go-slows, with several squads withdrawing en masse and one expelled. By the time…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472913043 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1472913043 |
| Author: | Alasdair Fotheringham |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Sport |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
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This book provides a fascinating insight into how low a professional team will go to achieve their goal
This book provides a fascinating insight into how low a professional team will go to achieve their goal * www.cambridge-news.co.uk *[A] thoroughly researched book * www.cambridge-news.co.uk *So much more than an account of a single Tour: one of the most thorough explanations of the drug taking culture in cycling * Road.cc *A gripping account of the 1998 Tour de France * The Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Alasdair Fotheringham
Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist, and was the cycling correspondent for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday from 2001 to 2016. He has covered 24 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain, the Olympics in 2008 and 2012 and numerous other major bike races. He is also a regular contributor to Cyclingnews and ProCycling. His previous books are The Eagle of Toledo, a biography of Spain’s first Tour de France winner Federico Martín Bahamontes, and Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña.
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