Racing Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Tour de France (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9782889155712)

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.

Author: Bertrand Fincoeur, Kirsten Frandsen, Christopher Thompson
ISBN-10: 2889155714
ISBN-13: 9782889155712
Publisher: Epfl Press
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2023
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.00d