101 Damnations: Dispatches from the 101st TouNed Boulting
A funny and irreverant look behind the scenes at the 2014 Tour de France, which starts in Yorkshire, from the author of How I Won the Yellow Jumper.In 2014 Ned Boulting reports on his dozen-th Tour de…
Specifikacia 101 Damnations: Dispatches from the 101st TouNed Boulting
A funny and irreverant look behind the scenes at the 2014 Tour de France, which starts in Yorkshire, from the author of How I Won the Yellow Jumper.In 2014 Ned Boulting reports on his dozen-th Tour de France, an event in which blokes do amazing things on bikes, and, we're oft told, the biggest annual sporting event in the world. 101 Damnations, is a chance to re-live the hundred-and-first edition of the race, stage for stage, fall after fall, tantrum by tantrum; just the good bits mind, without all the aerial shots of castles. And sunflowers. (Though it may wax lyrical about some stunning Alpine scenery... or even, on this occasion with the race starting in Yorkshire, some stunning scenery not far from Bradford.)From Leeds to Paris (how often do you say that?), the minutiae of Ned's encounters with the likes of Bradley Wiggins, Mark Cavendish, Chris