Yellow Fever: The Dark Heart of the Tour de France

By Jeremy Whittle

Book Overview

While the Tour de France tries to polish up its image, there are those who maintain that the reputation of this once proud race has been indelibly tarnished. This is the story of the 1998 Tour that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074722207X
• ISBN13: 9780747222071
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 1.3" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

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Whittle's combination of Tour reporting and quality journalism bring out details and doubts that are not covered in other books written on this subject. The author comes across as torn between seeing a sport he loves brought to its knees, and anger at the apathy and constant denial from the sports governing bodies and the Tour organisers. You feel that he knows more than he's telling and I hope that following the recent (Nov 2000) Festina Affair trial, that Whittle will update the book - telling us what, at the time of writing, he could only hint at. A great look into professional sports tripping over its own arrogance. Will be appreciated by cycling and non-cycling fans alike.

Thrills and pills!

Until I read this book I didn't realise what a cut-throat and dangerous, no-limits sport cycling was. It's all about the 1998 Tour de France scandal that almost stopped France's biggest annual event in its tracks. But it's told by a race insider like a thriller; the author's eyes open wider and wider by the day as the scandal, fear and loathing gets worse and worse and everybody, Whittle included, reaches the point of breakdown. If you've been reading about the Festina trial in the papers and on the web, you'll love this.....