The end of the road : the Festina affair and the tour that almost wrecked cycling
Fotheringham, Alasdair2016
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The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there were riders' strikes and go-slows, with several squads withdrawing en masse and one expelled. By the time the Tour reached Paris, just 96 of the 189 starters remained. And of those 189 starters, more than a quarter were later reported to have doped. Voet's arrest was just the beginning of sport's biggest mass doping controversy - what became known as the Festina affair. This book provides in-depth analysis and a colourful evocation of the tumultuous events during the 1998 Tour.
Main title:
The end of the road : the Festina affair and the tour that almost wrecked cycling / Alasdair Fotheringham.
Author:
Fotheringham, Alasdair, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472913029 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.62094409049796.620944796.620944 FOT
Local class:
796.620944 FOT
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2310945