Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Buch (Softcover): Ratgeber
Highlights of the 2026 Tour de France
Three Weeks from Barcelona to the Champs-Élysées
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36947646
EAN: 9798191220673
Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Di, 06.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 38.75
Beschreibung
Highlights of the 2026 Tour de France: Three Weeks from Barcelona to the Champs-Élysées. Five titles. Thirty one years. One broken collarbone that changed everything. For thirty one years, only four men had won the Tour de France five times. Jacques Anquetil. Eddy Merckx. Bernard Hinault. Miguel Induráin. Nobody had joined them since 1995. On 26 July 2026, on an avenue in Paris that the race had almost not reached, Tadej Pogačar became the fifth. Highlights of the 2026 Tour de France. tells the full story of the 113th edition, from the team time trial through the streets of Barcelona to the cobbles of Montmartre on the final evening. It was the fastest Tour ever ridden, and one of the strangest. A Norwegian nobody had picked wore yellow and left the race with a head injury he did not know he had. A nineteen year old from Lyon finished fourth and called it nothing. The temperature reached forty degrees on the road to Foix, wildfires closed forty kilometres of the course to spectators, and on the last Saturday the police who should have lined the Champs-Élysées were sent south to fight fires that had displaced 197,000 people. And on stage fifteen, at a roundabout in the town of Bonneville, Jonas Vingegaard's front wheel slipped, and the rivalry that had defined five consecutive Julys ended in about four seconds. Inside this book:. - The history of the Tour de France, from a failing newspaper in 1903 to the modern race- The Barcelona Grand Départ and the first team time trial opener since 1971- Pogačar's forty three kilometre solo over the Col du Tourmalet- Torstein Træen's improbable days in yellow- The crash at Bonneville and the race it left behind- Remco Evenepoel's extraordinary final week, and Isaac del Toro's podium at twenty two- Two consecutive summit finishes at Alpe d'Huez, never attempted before, and the fall of Marco Pantani's thirty one year old record- Richard Carapaz over the Croix de Fer, the Galibier and the Sarenne in a single afternoon- Paul Seixas, Lenny Martinez, and what a French revival is actually worth>Written in flowing narrative prose rather than dry statistics, this is the complete account of three weeks that produced two broken climbing records, twenty six riders who never reached Paris, and an argument about greatness that will not be settled for years. For anyone who followed every kilometre, and for anyone who caught the highlights and wants to know what they missed.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Paul Zillman
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 134