The Greatest Race on Earth: The Untold Story of the Tour de France
How a desperate newspaper editor accidentally created the world's most brutal sporting spectacle Imagine this: it's July 1, 1903. Sixty men gather outside a café on the outskirts of Paris — mostly French, a handful of Belgians, Swiss, Germans and Italians. Some are paid professionals. Others are just men who love to ride. All of them have agreed to race across an entire nation on nothing but two wheels, muscle, and whatever they packed in their jersey pockets. At 3:16 in the afternoon, they pu
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