Description
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, the personalities, the scandals, and gossip. Racing Time, instead, offers a serious study of the event, analyzed within its political, social, cultural, and economic context. Racing Time presents expert analyses of a range of topics and issues which the recent history of the Tour has shown to be of contemporary significance, including several studies that examine issues around doping from a range of perspectives.
Book Information
ISBN 9782889154630
Author Bertrand Fincoeur
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes
Publisher Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes
Weight(grams) 454g
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, the personalities, the scandals, and gossip. Racing Time, instead, offers a serious study of the event, analyzed within its political, social, cultural, and economic context. Racing Time presents expert analyses of a range of topics and issues which the recent history of the Tour has shown to be of contemporary significance, including several studies that examine issues around doping from a range of perspectives.
Book Information
ISBN 9782889154630
Author Bertrand Fincoeur
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes
Publisher Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes
Weight(grams) 454g
