How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour De France (Yellow Jersey Cycling Classics)
How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour De France (Yellow Jersey Cycling Classics)
Paperback – August 1, 2011
by
Ned Boulting
Price
$5.43
Format
Paperback
Pages
316
Publisher
Random House UK
Publication Date
August 1, 2011
ISBN-13
978-0224083355
Dimensions
5.31 x 0.94 x 8.5 inches
Weight
12.9 ounces
Description
"Candid, insightful and often hilarious. . . . Anyone who likes France, cycling, media coverage of sport, obsessives and above all the magic that is the Tour de France will enjoy this book."xa0 —Alastair Campbell Ned Boulting started his broadcasting career at Sky in 1997, working as a reporter alongside Jeff Stelling on the now legendary show Soccer Saturday . In 2006 he was given the Royal Television Society’s Sports Reporter of the Year Award. He has presented two Tours of Britain for ITV, as well as the inaugural Tour Series, and contributed features and live reports on eight Tours de France.
Features & Highlights
- Follow Ned Boulting?s (occasionally excruciating) experiences covering the world?s most famous two-wheeled race. His story offers an insider?s view of life behind the scenes of the Tour, as well as detailing the complexities and absurdities of reporting on the race and confronting the most celebrated riders?Cavendish, Wiggins, Armstrong et al?seconds after they cross the line. Eight Tours on from Ned?s humbling debut, he has grown to respect, mock, adore, and crave the race in equal measure. What?s more, he has even started to understand it. Funny and frank, How I Won the Yellow Jumper is the account of Ned?s journey?that same journey undertaken by many tens of thousands of cycling enthusiasts?from tour trainee to incurable fanatic.
