Bertrand Fincoeur, Kirsten Frandsen, Christopher Thompson

Racing Time

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Tour de France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Epfl Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 124mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9782889155712
• ISBN-10: 2889155714
• Artikelnr.: 69569126

Autorenporträt

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.