"This group of studies first appeared as a special issue of The international journal of the history of sport ... Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2003"--T.p. verso. "First published in 2003 in Great Britain by Frank Cass Publishers"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Tour de France, a pre-modern contest in a post-modern context / Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare -- The changing organization of the Tour de France and its media coverage : an interview with Jean-Marie Leblanc / Dominique Marchetti -- The Tour de France and cycling's belle epoque / Philippe Gaboriau -- The Tour in the inter-war years : political ideology, athletic excess, and industrial modernity / Christopher Thompson -- The economics of the Tour, 1930-2003 / Eric Reed -- The Tour de France as an agent of change in media production / Fabien Wille -- Beating the bounds : the Tour de France and national identity / Christophe Campos -- French cycling heroes of the Tour : winners and losers / Hugh Dauncey -- Se faire naturaliser cycliste : the Tour and its non-French competitors / John Marks -- The Tour de France and the doping issue / Patrick Mignon -- A côté du Tour : ambushing the Tour for political and social causes / Jean-François Polo -- Chronology of the tour 1902-2003.
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