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Bezig met laden... The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France (editie 2018)door Daniel de Visé
Informatie over het werkThe Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France door Daniel De Visé
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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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In addition to those 20 minutes, bike racing fans will learn from Daniel de Visé’s book how LeMond became a racer and how he came to compete and succeed against such formidably gifted men as Bernard Hinault and Laurent Fignon. It was a success achieved in the face of personal demons that followed him from his youth.
After his racing career, LeMond was belittled for his protests publicizing the competitive performance advantages realized in the peloton by doping. His outspokenness gave him the reputation of being a bitter man jealous of others’ successes, the most famous of the others being Lance Armstrong. Fans now know who was telling the truth. The racers, most of whom doped, knew all along. Thus, the book also becomes a story about what it is to insist on honesty in an environment committed to subverting truth, in a sport where the event most directly testing a competitor’s strength (the time trial) is often called the “race of truth” (ironic, eh?). At book’s end, the author gives us a specific example of why one should suspect that deceptions by those most successful in the sport persist. I hope LeMond’s voice continues to be heard. (