Comeback, The, Daniel de Vise
Comeback, The, Daniel de Vise
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Comeback, The
Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France

Author: Daniel de Vise

Narrator: Pete Cross

Unabridged: 12 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2018

Synopsis

In July of 1986, Greg LeMond stunned the sporting world by becoming the first American to win the Tour de France, the world's pre-eminent bicycle race, defeating French cycling legend Bernard Hinault. Nine months later, LeMond lay in a hospital bed, his life in peril after a hunting accident, his career as a bicycle racer seemingly over. And yet, barely two years after this crisis, LeMond mounted a comeback. In 1989, he once again won the Tour-by the almost impossibly narrow margin of eight seconds over another French legend, Laurent Fignon. It remains the closest Tour de France in history. The Comeback chronicles the life of this great American athlete, from his roots in Nevada and California to the heights of global fame. With the kind of narrative drive that propels books like Moneyball and a fierce attention to detail, Daniel de Vise reveals the dramatic, ultra-competitive inner world of a sport rarely glimpsed up close, building a compelling case for LeMond as its great American hero.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 04, 2018

I’ve long been a fan of professional road race cycling and have particularly enjoyed following the Grand Tours (the three multi-stage road races that run annually across and around France, Italy and Spain). Most notably, from the 1980’s I'd sit transfixed watching the daily television updates from L......more

Goodreads review by Steve on August 02, 2019

Saw this at my local (independent) book shop, and (duh) I had to have it. The GOOD news is that it was a (legitimately) good book - a relatively quick and easy read - and a nice piece of history (which, of course, on this topic, is increasingly revisionist or, should we say, corrective history). And......more

Goodreads review by John on July 13, 2018

It’s always a wonderful surprise to read a book about a subject you are not intimately familiar with and find that the storytelling pulls you in. Beginning with a wonderfully tense race and then returning to the start of Greg LeMond’s fascination with cycling, this is a story very well-told and enti......more

Goodreads review by Michael on July 29, 2018

It's odd, but the title on the hardcover version I have is "The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France" which is quite different from "30 Shotgun Pellets, and the World's Greatest Bicycle Race." The central event of the book is, as the title (on the c......more

Goodreads review by Mark on January 02, 2021

One of the best cycling books I’ve read.......more

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