# Cycling

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Category: Sports
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:25.604Z
Tags: sports, cycling

## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

1. Cycling. Le Tour.
2. Opening The bicycle as theatre.
3. Chapter I The bicycle, 1817–1890.
4. Chapter II Pierre Giffard, Henri Desgrange, and the 1903 Tour.
5. Chapter III The early Tours, 1903–1939.
6. Chapter IV Bartali and Coppi.
7. Chapter V Anquetil — the technician.
8. Chapter VI Eddy Merckx — the Cannibal.
9. Chapter VII Hinault — Le Blaireau.
10. Chapter VIII Greg LeMond, the American.
11. Chapter IX Indurain — the Spaniard.
12. Chapter X The Armstrong era and the doping reckoning.
13. Chapter XI The clean-up and the modern Tour.
14. Chapter XII The Giro d'Italia.
15. Chapter XIII The Vuelta a España.
16. Chapter XIV The Monuments — one-day classics.
17. Chapter XV Track cycling.
18. Chapter XVI Mountain biking.
19. Chapter XVII Cyclocross and gravel.
20. Chapter XVIII Women's cycling.
21. Chapter XIX Equipment and the watt obsession.
22. Chapter XX The peloton — tactics and team.
23. Chapter XXI The Pogačar phenomenon.
24. Chapter XXII Cycling at the Olympics.
25. Chapter XXIII The literature of cycling.
26. Chapter XXIV A reading shelf.
27. Chapter XXV Watch & read.
28. Chapter XXVI The future of cycling.
29. Chapter XXVII Why cycling.
30. Colophon · Vol. IX, Deck 12

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