Maillot Jaune: The Yellow Jersey
by Jean-Paul Ollivier

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Book Review: Learn about the old european stars of the Tour de France
Summary: 5 Stars

Also keep in mind that it's not a text book history. The book is meant to give you a sense of personalities and rivalries. These people are household names in Europe, and detailed factual biographies would be out of place. This book is more like love letters and old pictures in the family album. Old disagreements are of more interest than statistics. This book is for lovers of road racing, not historians. It is heavy on the French side of racing, so there is still a lot to learn about when you put the book down. Think of it as a family history of the Tour written by the French relations.

Ever read a European cycle magazine? They are just like this book, full of gossip and pictures, and what some sprinter's family looks like, and a picture of his first road race when he was 12, and why he can't stand so-and-so who moved over to another team, etc., etc...

Summation: Hey, if you want pictures of Lance, go elsewhere. This book is for you if...
1) you want learn about the personalities of older European stars of the TdF, and find out why they were so beloved,
2) you want to learn about the TdF before the Tour was fashionable in the US,
3) you want to get a sense of the hardships cyclists faced in the early years of the sport,
and 4) maybe get inside of the head of those weird French riders and Tour organizers,
this is a good place to start.

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