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Racing Time
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Tour de France
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Artikel-Nr:
9782889154630
Veröffentl:
2024
Seiten:
200
Autor:
Bertrand Fincoeur
Gewicht:
454 g
Format:
210x140x0 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.