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by Graeme Fife
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by Jeremy Whittle
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by Tim Moore
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by Paul Kimmage
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by Matt Rendell
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Fife illustrates well that, of course, it's not just the winners that add to the legend of the Tour. It's also some of the lesser lights, the "domestiques", riding to work for their team leaders. Chapters on Paul Sherwen and Sean Yates, two Britons in their time considered highly amongst the worker bees of the peloton, highlight the selflessness of the role. The hierarchy inside professional road racing on the continent has largely been near feudal; only the last decade has seen changes to that. In the chapters on the British heroes, the sheer arrogant and unnecessary insularity of British cycling is made clear by Fife; it's no surprise we're still waiting for the first Englishman to win the Tour de France, at a time when an American (Lance Armstrong) has just won his third in a row. Without such success professional cycling will retain its low profile in the British sporting consciousness. Meanwhile, authors like Fife continue to provide the English language with a disproportionate amount of highly readable literature on the sport. --Trevor Crowe --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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