Chasing Lance The 2005 Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's Ride of a Lifetime

by Dugard, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780316166232
• ISBN10: 0316166235
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

The only riders remaining on the course were Ivan Basso of Team CSC, T-Mobile's Jan Ullrich, and Armstrong. I alternately watched their performances on yet another bank of flat screens and monitored their progress by the location of the helicopters filming each rider from above. They were still far in the distance, but little by little, the helicopters neared the finish line.

Author Biography

Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of such nonfiction titles as Chasing Lance, The Last Voyage of Columbus, Farther Than Any Man, Knockdown, and Into Africa. He has written for Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated, and GQ. Dugard lives in Orange County, California, with his wife and three sons.

Table of Contents

Map of the 92nd Tour de France	x
Introduction: Welcome to France	3	(14)
Part I: Trials
Stage One: Fromentine–Noirmoutier-enl'lle	17	(14)
Stage Two: Challans–Les Essarts	31	(15)
Stage Three: La Châtaigneraie–Tours	46	(11)
Stage Four: Tours–Blois	57	(16)
Stage Five: Chambord–Montargis	73	(13)
Stage Six: Troyes–Nancy	86	(8)
Stage Seven: Lunéville–Karlsruhe	94	(10)
Stage Eight: Pforzheim–Gérardmer	104	(11)
Stage Nine: Gérardmer–Mulhouse	115	(12)
Part II: Mountains
Rest Day: Grenoble	127	(10)
Stage Ten: Grenoble–Courchevel	137	(13)
Stage Eleven: Courchevel–Briançon	150	(12)
Stage Twelve: Briançon–Digne-les-Bains	162	(8)
Stage Thirteen: Miramas–Montpellier	170	(10)
Stage Fourteen: Agde–Ax-3 Domaines	180	(11)
Stage Fifteen: Lézat-sur-Lèze–Saint-Lary-Soulan (Pla-d'Adet)	191	(12)
Second Rest Day: Lourdes	203	(11)
Stage Sixteen: Mourenx–Pau	214	(12)
Stage Twenty: Saint-Étienne–Saint-Étienne	226	(7)
Paris	233	(4)
Epilogue	237	(6)
Acknowledgments	243