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Chasing Lance: The 2005 Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's Ride of a Lifetime
A unique combination of travelogue, humor, and insider cycling critique, "Chasing Lance" brings into focus the entire Tour de France experience. 8-page photo insert. 2 maps.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
December 1st 2005
by Little, Brown and Company
(first published 2001)
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It's hard to not appreciate what journalists must go through when covering the three grand cycling tours of Europe, especially the largest Tour de France. Add to that the announced retirement of the sport's most successful Tour de France rider in history and the coverage of the event is even greater. It's more than three weeks of every day starting in one place, then having to travel 100 or so miles away to beat really fast cyclists through traffic of centuries-old towns and villages if you want...more
Loved this book! Dugard is a terrific writer who is an admirer (but not a hero-worshipper) of Lance. The most enjoyable parts of the book for me were not about Lance but about the author's description of his experience of France and the French people he encountered during the Tour de France. He is insightful and poetic at the same time, and he includes both personal comments along with observations about cultural and artistic aspects of life in France. He definitely does not glamorize the schlep...more
Jan 09, 2011
Jason
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Cyclist and those thinking about going to the Tour
Recommended to Jason by:
Doug
Good casual book about the 2005 Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's attempt to win 7 times. It was filled with great Tour details, historical references and tidbits about the authors travels while covering the Tour. Very interesting; I learned more about the Tour than I had know when I started the book even though I have followed the Tour over several years. Some of the information was basics, but that is understandable since it's a book for many audiences.
A bit formulaic (standard one-chapter-per-stage format for these type of books). Didn't provide the insights into the racing itself that the blurb suggested it might, and contained a couple of basic errors in some of the tour facts presented. But it is an interesting insight into the lives of those who *follow* the tour, and into the Lance-mania in the tour circus at the time.
This book seems to be more about the author's time in France rather than about Lance. Lacking the objectivity of a sports reporter (a sad statement in and of itself). For a much better book about Lance and The Tour de France, try 23 Days in July.
This book was really a combination of sport book, travel book, and motivational book, and this makes sense given the story - Lance Armstrong's successful attempt to win his seventh Tour de France. The author made an interesting choice, to spend many pages on each of the first stages of the race, then covering the final half dozen stages over a couple of pages total. It is written as the race is described, a bit anti-climactic after the mountains. I read this over a period of months, a few pages...more
Very quick read, really liked it. Not as much about Lance as it is about Dugard's experience following Lance on his last Tour victory.
I really liked this book. It was part-travelogue, part-biography and part-sports book, following Lance Armstrong on his record breaking seventh tour win.
Nice combination of history, local flavor, and the excitement of Lance's final Tour.
Enjoyed it. But in retrospect, probably fiction. Lance is dirty
Well written account of the 2005 Tour de France.
Some cool facts about the Tour de France.
great biography
So interesting! I did not know much about cycling or the Tour de France before I read this but now I'm really looking forward to watching this year's race on TV. This book was a little bit cycling history, French/world history, Lance Armstrong biography, a behind the scenes look at the Tour and overall an entertaining and inspiring story.
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New York Times bestselling author Martin Dugard specializes in chronicling the drive of great men to realize their potential. His most recent book is The Training Ground (Little, Brown, 2008), the riveting saga of America's great Civil War generals during the Mexican War, when they were scared young lieutenants first learning the ways of war.
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