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The comeback : Greg LeMond, the true king of American cycling, and a legendary Tour de France
- Title
- The comeback : Greg LeMond, the true king of American cycling, and a legendary Tour de France / Daniel de Visé.
- Author
- De Visé, Daniel
- Publication
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 25 cm
- Summary
- In July 1986, Greg LeMond stunned the sporting world by becoming the first American to win the Tour de France, the world's pre-eminent bicycle race, defeating French cycling legend Bernard Hinault. Nine months later, LeMond lay in a hospital bed, his life in peril after a hunting accident, his career as a bicycle racer seemingly over. And yet, barely two years after this crisis, LeMond mounted a comeback almost without parallel in professional sports. In summer 1989, he again won the Tour--arguably the world's most grueling athletic contest--by the almost impossibly narrow margin of 8 seconds over another French legend, Laurent Fignon. It remains the closest Tour de France in history. The Comeback chronicles the life of one of America's greatest athletes, from his roots in Nevada and California to the heights of global fame, to a falling out with his own family and a calamitous confrontation with Lance Armstrong over allegations the latter was doping--a campaign LeMond would wage on principle for more than a decade before Armstrong was finally stripped of his own Tour titles. With the kind of narrative drive that propels books like Moneyball, and a fierce attention to detail, Daniel de Visé reveals the dramatic, ultra-competitive inner world of a sport rarely glimpsed up close, and builds a compelling case for LeMond as its great American hero.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- The gift -- The wheelmen -- LeMonster -- The pilgrimage -- Le Parisien -- L'Américain -- Le Tour -- Le grand blond -- The deal -- The betrayal -- Twenty minutes -- The comeback -- The battle -- Eight seconds -- The sequel -- The decline -- The Texan -- The feud -- The last breath -- Amends.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-6612
- ISBN
- 9780802127945
- 0802127940
- LCCN
- 2017061342
- OCLC
- 1019835396
- Author
- De Visé, Daniel, author.
- Title
- The comeback : Greg LeMond, the true king of American cycling, and a legendary Tour de France / Daniel de Visé.
- Publisher
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-6612