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Lance
Armstrong is a household name the world over. But how could a cyclist
from the United States so dominate the world’s most grueling sporting
event—an event Americans weren’t even invited to compete in just decades
earlier?
In
this revolutionary book, Lou Dzierzak explains how key races and
landmark events brought American cyclists out of obscurity and made them
internationally dominating competitors.
Six-day
races, road racing, track racing, and legendary cycling performances at
home and abroad—the significant events in the history of American
cycling come alive within these pages.
• Discover America’s first bicycle racing superstars. Is Lance Armstrong truly the best of all time? Maybe not.
•
Follow the action at key U.S. and international races that paved the
way for sponsorship dollars, American pro teams, and dominating American
cyclists like Andy Hampsten, Greg LeMond, Lance Armstrong, Tyler
Hamilton, and George Hincapie.
•
Witness nearly a century of drugs, doping, and scandals, from cocaine
use during the six-day races in the late1890s, to blood boosting at the
1984 Los Angeles Olympics, to the scandal-plagued 2006 Tour de France
victory
by American Floyd Landis.
by American Floyd Landis.
•
Look to the future as new U.S. stage races form, Under 23 development
teams thrive, and new heroes of American cycling begin to emerge.
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