- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Hushion House (February 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1892495163
- ISBN-13: 978-1892495167
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.5 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 345 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,121,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
In this book, writer Samuel Abt and writer/photographer James Startt follow the world's premier professional bicycle racing event, the Tour de France and the events leading up to it. The book comprises 192 pages of text with black and white photographs and a 16-page full-color photo insert.
From the Back Cover
"The Tortured Tour," that's how the 1998 edition of the Tour de France, the world's most important bicycle race, has been described.
It began with a bang: Even before the race had started in Dublin, Ireland, a doping scandal involving the number-one-rated team, Festina, upstaged the sporting aspect. And it never calmed down after that, as daily stage results and the fortunes of the race's favorites were pushed off newspaper front pages by reports of police raids, rider expulsions, arrests, and strikes.
Yet by the time the Tour had wound its way through much of France and ended in Paris, we saw some great racing. While Marco Pantani, the Italian star, was clearly the man of the moment, he shared the limelight with Bobby Julich, a rising American racer, and Jan Ullrich, who was the defending champion in the Tour.
In and around the Tour, we also find such new faces as George Hincapie, the American national champion, his teammate Tyler Hamilton, and Australian champion Stuart O'Grady. And we meet old friends, like three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong, first struggling and then succeeding in his comeback from cancer.
This personal account by Samuel Abt and James Startt illuminates the Tour de France and the sport of bicycle racing itself.
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A Good Book About a Bad Tour, Mar 13 2010
By James L. Witherell, Author, Bicycle History - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In Pursuit of the Yellow Jersey (Paperback)
Covering the European peloton for decades, Sam Abt has seen it all and brought it all to life for those of us who can only dream, someday, of going and watching the Tour in person. The 1998 edition of the race is one we all remember, and most of us would like to forget. Since the only way to learn from the past is to revisit it, we have to go back there from time to time, and the best way to do this is by reading In Pursuit of the Yellow Jersey.As he often does, instead of jumping right in to the Tour de France, Abt takes us through the season's early tests -- the classics -- setting the scene for what's to come in July; a scene for which none of us were ready.
Once the stuff hits the fan, he's there with all the detail and all the opinions you'll need to know exactly what's going on and just exactly how the riders feel about it. But there's more to this book than just the drug scandals; there are the day to day events that make up the very heart of the race, described in vivid detail. And let's not forget the American who ended up on the podium that year.
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