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  • Tour de France: The Inside Story

  • Making the World's Greatest Bicycle Race
  • By: Les Woodland
  • Narrated by: Oscar Sparrow
  • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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By: Les Woodland
Narrated by: Oscar Sparrow
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The Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick for a floundering newspaper. More than 100 years later, the Tour still captivates the world and is broadcast to over 180 countries.

How did a few men looking for some way to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? Les Woodland tells the inside story of the Tour de France through the prism of the men who started it, and those who now run it. As he explores the creation and evolution of the Tour, he never runs out of those fascinating illustrative tales that make his books impossible to put down. This work was originally published in a slightly altered form in 2009 as Tourmen: The Men Who Made the Tour de France. It has been updated to reflect the events that have happened since the original publication.
©2014 Les Woodland (P)2014 Les Woodland
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Good but really only for cyclists.

A bit list like and the reading is a little stilted. I did enjoy it but listened in chunks every couple of months. I think it's really only for hardened cyclists not for casual interest. Having listened once I wouldn't again.

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French accents

The voice actor reads all the quotes from French speaking people in this book with a false French accent.

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