Leave it to a heroic Texan to guide America’s incredible emergence as a great power in professional cycling. In our years of covering the world’s greatest bike race, we’ve witnessed the Tour de France exploits of LeMond, Indurain, Riis, Ullrich and Pantani. But with impressive victories against the clock and in the Alps, former cancer patient Lance Armstrong unifies fans and riders alike in the most inspirational sports comeback story of all time. Fellow Americans Hamilton, Hincapie and Andrea support their leader perfectly as he battles against all odds, perhaps saving cycling’s tarnished image along the way, exactly ten years after American hero Greg LeMond’s own return from a near-death experience to the top of the podium in Paris. Can A
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Jacques Anquetil remains one of the most outstanding figures in the history of cycling. He was the first man to the win the Tour de France five times; the first to win all three grand tours (the Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and Giro d’Italia); and the first to win both the Tour and Vuelta in the same year. The fame Anquetil received for his cycling success was matched only by the infamy of his complex and unconventional private life. As this engaging biography reveals, between his races Anquetil seduced his doctor’s wife and acted as stepfather to her children before asking his stepdaughter to bear him a child. He maintained a ménage à trios with his wife and stepdaughter for several years until the threesome fell apart, after wh
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