A book that fills a niche in academic analysis of the Tour de France.
The Tour de France is an event known worldwide by both fans of cycling and the general public as a distinguished and extreme physical challenge. Since the 1990s, however, the Tour has also become notorious as a testing ground for performance enhancement and a proving ground for anti-doping measures. The Tour has long been the focus of books that concentrate on racing, the personalities, the scandals, and gossip. Racing Time, instead, offers a serious study of the event, analyzed within its political, social, cultural, and economic context. Racing Time presents expert analyses of a range of topics and issues which the recent history of the Tour has shown to be of contemporary significance, including several studies that examine issues around doping from a range of perspectives.
PART 1 : INCLUSION, EXCLUSION AND IDENTITY
Chapter 1
The Truce that Never Was? The Tour de France and French Politics
C. Thompson
Chapter 2
Where? A simple question with a comprehensive answer - Spatial dimensions of
the Tour the France
V. Bacķk, M. Klobucnķk,
Chapter 3
The tribulations of the Womens Tour de France: a symbol of the refusal to
acknowledge women in cycling
F. Plassard, L. Schoch
Chapter 4
Le Tour de France and Womens Activism
S. Ryder
PART 2 : ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STAKES
Chapter 5
The Tour and Selling Things
E. Reed
Chapter 6
Does Hosting the Tour de France Yield Tangible Benefits?
C.G.Nielsen, A. Nygaard, M. Eske, R.K Storm
Chapter 7
The central role of the Tour de France in the political economy of
professional cycling
F. Ohl, B. Fincoeur
Chapter 8
Reflections on the environmental impacts of the Tour de France
A. Collins
Chapter 9:
Mental challenges in the modern period of the Great Loop
D. Hauw
PART 3 : MEDIA PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 10
Tour de France TV broadcasting
D. Van Reeth
Chapter 11
Televisions contribution to the experience of the Tour de France
K. Frandsen
Chapter 12
Tour de France on Twitter the discursive modes of sport audience tweets
M. Olesen
Chapter 13
Is there a future for a virtual Tour de France?
B. Fincoeur
Bertrand Fincoeur is a lecturer and researcher in sociology and sports management at the Institute of Sports Sciences of the University of Lausanne. He is also a lecturer at the EPFL. Kirsten Frandsen teaches in the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. Christopher Thompson is the author of The Tour de France: A Cultural History.
