23 Days In July: Inside Lance Armstrong's Record-Breaking Tour De France
Victory
By John Wilcockson & Graham Watson
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306814013/ref=ase_veluninc/00
2-4848737-1594426?v=glance&s=books
23 Days in July is much more than a day-by-day recap of each stage in this
historic Tour. Renowned cycling writer John Wilcockson serves up engaging
pieces of race history with vivid descriptions of locales-from the Alps to
the Pyrenees to Paris-as he describes the mental as well as physical battle
between Armstrong, Ullrich, Hamilton, Basso, and Mayo. Woven into the
narrative are the compelling personal stories of Armstrong and his major
competitors and an insider's look at their pre-Tour strategy and training
regimens, all lending new insight into the human side of the Tour de France.
And the book places Armstrong's extraordinary achievement in an historic
perspective through interviews with the legendary Belgian cyclist Eddy
Merckx, the man who came closest to winning six Tours before Armstrong; the
Tour de France race director Jean-Marie Leblanc; and Armstrong's personal
coach Chris Carmichael.
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Steven L. Sheffield
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