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Tour de Lance: The Extraordinary Story of Lance Armstrong's Fight to Reclaim the Tour de France |  | Author: Bill Strickland
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0307589846
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.62092
EAN: 9780307589842
ASIN: 0307589846
Publication Date: June 15, 2010
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Product Description
Lance Armstrong is a worldwide icon, indisputably one of the greatest cyclists who has ever lived. After battling cancer and becoming an inspiration to millions, Armstrong won the Tour de France a record-breaking seven consecutive years before retiring from competition in 2005.
Four years later, at thirty-seven, Armstrong decided to come out of retirement and go for the win yet again. He was racing for no salary, in a season when his greatest rival--Tour de France, Tour of Italy, and Tour of Spain champion Alberto Contador--was on his own team. The twenty-five-year-old Spaniard had been handpicked by Armstrong's own mentor, Johan Bruyneel, to be his successor. Now he would be his fiercest competition. Armstrong was about to suffer like never before--and, for the first time in recent memory, appear to be human on a bicycle.
After seven Tour victories--and beating cancer--did Lance Armstrong really need to prove anything? Beyond the thrill of another possible victory, what drove him to race again? What was he seeking--and would he find it?
Cycling insider Bill Strickland had unprecedented access to Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel, and the team. He takes readers behind the scenes during the 2009 racing season and along for the ride on the Tour de France with a dramatic mile-by-mile account. Offering a penetrating and candid glimpse into the man behind the myth, Tour de Lance goes beyond a single season or a single race to reveal the heart of the sport and the soul of the cyclist.
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The Evolution of Lance Armstrong August 26, 2010
E-Cowboy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the things that I love about professional cycling is the many layers that are at play over the course of a Grand Tour. Perhaps if you're a hardcore cycling fan - you know the summiting record for Alpe d'Huez or can name the Lanterne Rouge from the past three Tour de Frances - Strickland's book might fall short in terms of ultimate insider information. However, as a cycling enthusiast, I wasn't disappointed in the details and Tour insights, strategies, and tactics that Strickland wrote about in "Tour de Lance".
This book is an interesting look at the evolution of Lance Armstrong, how he started in professional cycling and changed (matured?) over the course of his career. It's an insightful revelation about how his celebrity status in recent years has impacted him and ultimately what drove him to hop back on the saddle.
There were a few times throughout the book when Strickland got away from Armstrong and instead focused on the people who have become cycling fans because of him. While it was interesting to read about the impact that Lance has had on the sport, in those sections, I felt like Strickland's writing was a little over-the-top and could've been more concise.
All in all though, "Tour de Lance" is an interesting book on the sport of cycling and the worldwide celebrity that Lance Armstrong has become.
it's good, very good July 25, 2010
Robert B. Kidd (Rhode Island)
Bill Strickland writes like a painter who uses long, slow strokes to create an image. You have to be patient, but he does a thorough job before the book is over.
 TEN Stars!! WOW what a great book!!! July 14, 2010
MotherLodeBeth (Sierras of California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Only a wonderful author like Bill Strickland who has written for Bicycling magazine and has ridden and race throughout the world could have written a book like this. Talk about a book that grabs your attention from the cover to the inside photos to the ins and outs of the sport, including the results from the various races he covers in the book. And living in the Sierras near Nevada City and knowing the Nevada City Classic in June 2009 (and the recent race) which was 44 miles, made the book even more interesting.
And that reminded me of the opening page of the book Tour de France, Stage 1 Individual Time Trial, 15.5 km, Monaco July 4, 2009. " Here he is, Lance Armstrong. And there he goes: a blue and yellow-and-white figure on a black-and-yellow bike streaking over the gray surface of a road in Monaco late on a summer morning, the sun's yellow pale in comparison to the shoulders of his jersey, the sky's blue nothing more than the original idea for the magnificent tones that wrap around his back and legs.'
That's exactly the vision I remembered from Nevada City, where he whizzed by so fast that one had to remind themselves that indeed he had just ridden by. It was also the race that when he went thru Sacramento would involve some thief stealing one of his bikes which made local and national news.
So if you are the least bit interested in bike racing or Lance Armstrong and information and commentary you wont find just anywhere, then please buy and read this wonderful book.
Great Read! July 3, 2010
bookgirl
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've read a lot of books on both Lance and the Tour. This book ranks up there with the best. I loved the first person perspective - I felt like I was right there with them. The Tour starts today and this book totally got me excited to watch. Go Lance!
 Left a lot to be desired... July 1, 2010
Jim Austin (Wylie, TX USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Strickland chooses to write this book in the first person. It's a poor choice. By comparison, renowned sports photographer and photojournalist Elizabeth Kreutz's work is included in Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal which covers the same period in Lance's journey. Imagine how heavy-handed and off-putting a photo essay work would look were the photographer to show up in all of the athlete's pictures. She was smarter than to take that approach. Unfortunately, Strickland was not.
This is much more a voyeur's look at Lance's comeback, which is what generates the genuine criticism that there is nothing being told that is really new here. Strickland is a strong writer though. He can (and does) describe the cycling jacket that he is wearing, right down to the cut and function of its zipper. If you don't mind reliving Lance's comeback through a bystander's eyes, this book will likely read well and with some measure of appeal. In that respect, I agree with those who have so well received this book. Strickland clearly loves cycling. There is no better measure of writing about something that you love than to do it in the first person. Where this book falls apart for many, and quickly, is that Strickland admits no love of Lance Armstrong, particularly not of his attempt at a comeback.
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