Racing Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Tour de France

by Bertrand Fincoeur, Christopher Thompson, Kirsten Frandsen

A book that fills a niche in academic analysis of the Tour de France.

The Tour de France is an event known worldwide by both fans of cycling and the general public as a distinguished and extreme physical challenge. Since the 1990s, however, the Tour has also become notorious as a testing ground for performance enhancement and a proving ground for anti-doping measures. The Tour has long been the focus of books that concentrate on racing,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2889154637
• ISBN13: 9782889154630
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Epfl Press
• Length: 200 Pages