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Cycling is the rare sport whose foundational event was invented as a marketing scheme — and whose romance has survived every doping scandal, every commercial absurdity, every accusation that its heroes were chemists in lycra. Key sections include: Cycling. Le Tour.; Opening The bicycle as theatre.; Chapter I The bicycle, 1817–1890.; Chapter II Pierre Giffard, Henri Desgrange, and the 1903 Tour.; Chapter III The early Tours, 1903–1939.; Chapter IV Bartali and Coppi.; Chapter V Anquetil — the technician.; Chapter VI Eddy Merckx — the Cannibal.; Chapter VII Hinault — Le Blaireau.; Chapter VIII Greg LeMond, the American..
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