WALKO (eBook)

The 1956 Tour de France

Gareth Cartman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
180 Seiten
Gareth Cartman (Verlag)
978-1-9160197-3-7 (ISBN)

Infos

If you won the Tour de France, how would you feel if people said you didn't deserve it? WALKO is the story of how Roger Walkowiak raced 5000km, beat over 100 riders and apparently didn't deserve his victory. Spoiler: he did.

The 1956 Tour de France was the first post-war Tour not to feature a previous winner. Louison Bobet was injured, so the French team was riding without a leader. It was every man for themselves.

WALKO takes you to the heart of this most thrilling of Tours - a high-octane, unpredictable Tour which saw an unexpected regional rider beat the World Champion and the Giro d'Italia winner. Over 22 stages, covering 5,000km, WALKO brings the 1950s peloton to life with stories from the likes of Roger Hassenforder, André Darrigade and Sauveur Ducazeaux.

You'll discover how an entire team ruined its chances through doping, how cycling's most hated rider became cycling's most adored man, and how a humble man from Montluçon defied all expectations to beat over 100 riders to the line in Paris.

WALKO is a celebration of the Tour de France and of France itself. It celebrates the men - and the women - who pushed Roger Walkowiak all the way, but above all, it celebrates a victory that many wrongly believed the winning rider didn't deserve.

If you thought you knew what it meant to win à la Walkowiak, think again...

Inhalt

1. Prologue


2. A man in a hurry


3. Belgium attacks, Bidot worries


4. Nine men stay away for the day


5. An Alsatian among the Bretons


6. Brittany first


7. The yellow jersey, the level crossing, and the Invisible Man


8. The water carrier, the saviour, and the protector


9. Why do they have to go so fast?


10. Hassen-le-Magnifique


11. Enter (and exit) Pierrette Walkowiak


12. Operation "Lose the Yellow Jersey"


13. So, Charly Gaul, do you have it?


14. Jempy Schmitz's Awesome Adventure


15. Treason among the Tricolores


16. Little Louis and the Breakawee


17. The Physician, the Belgians, and the fishy excuses


18. None the wiser, nothing by half


19. Dotto and Lerda leave Laurédi in the lurch


20. The revival of Charly Gaul, and the man who wasn't there


21. The attack they all missed


22. The crash, the bandit, the pursuit


23. Déjeuner sur l'herbe, or Walko's time trials


24. Leave me here in Montluçon, my dear


25. Take me back to Montluçon


26. Epilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Fahrrad
• Schlagworte: cycling book • cycling fiction • Road cycling • sporting fiction • Sports book • Tour de France
• ISBN-10: 1-9160197-3-0 / 1916019730
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9160197-3-7 / 9781916019737