Tour De France 1903-2003

This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and increasingly a world cycling competition. This study provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting cultural social economic and political significance of the Tour within and outside France giving a comprehensive and authoritative investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means now and in the past to competitors to France to the French public to the cultural history of sport and the sport of cycling itself.