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Foreword Jean-Marie Leblanc ix
Prologue: The Pinnacle xi
Birth of a Legend 1
1952: Fausto Coppi Climbs to the Heavens 7
1976: How Alpe d'Huez Became "Dutch Mountain" 17
1977: Thevenet Can't Climb the Stairs 25
1978: Pollentier, or the Story of a Toad's Trickery 34
1979: Two Climbs for the Price of One 41
1981: The Badger Denied 48
1982: Beat Breu in the Footsteps of Charly Gaul 53
1983: Fignon Makes His Debut 57
1984: Hinault Agonistes 64
1986: The Alpe's Greatest Duel 70
1987: Delgado Sets Spain Afire 78
1988: Steven Rooks Smiles at Last 83
1989: Fignon's Exhausted Attack 91
1990: LeMond and Bugno to the Line 97
1991: The Beginning of the Indu-reign 104
1992: Hampsten Sets His Pace 109
1994: Pantani Sets a Record 115
1995: Pantani and Indurain: The Face-Off 122
1997: The Pirate, Alone at the Helm 129
1999: Armstrong: Return of the Miracle Man 136
2001: The Look 143
2003: Armstrong Battles Bad Luck 149
2004: Six-Shooter: Armstrong Aims at the Record 158
2006: Landis in Armstrong's Footsteps 167
The Ascents of Alpe d'Huez 177
Statistics 192
Notes 203
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Thomas Pinter
reviewed The Tour Is Won on the Alpe: L'Alpe d'Huez and the Classic Battles of the Tour de France on December 09, 2010
The Tour Is Won on the Alpe
Fabulous book - a history of the tour through the eyes of one person, the Alpe d''Huez.
Though not every tour included the Alpe in its repertoire, Jean-Paul Vespini gives the reader a clear history of this epic sporting event by the simple task of focusing on a great mountain. We learn about the early days of racing before distant continents began to invade the tour, the development and destructive efforts of doping and intimate portraits of some of cycling's greatest heroes: Coppi, Mercks, Hinault, Maertens, van Impe, Zoetemelk, Fignon, Herrera, LeMond, Roche, Kelly, Bugno, Indurain, Hampsten, Pantani, Ullrich and Armstrong.
The protagonist may be the Alpe but the story is the tour.
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