World War I, 23, 33, 50, 112, 116, 129
Western Mail, 46
World War II, 51, 69, 117
West Germany, broadcast advertising, 57
Wright, Wilbur, 128
Wilcockson, John, 142 – 43
Wylie, Laurence, 61
Willard, Frances, 13, 14
Winfrey, Oprah, 195
The Yellow Jersey (Hurne), 153
winners, Tour de France: commonalities, xv – xvii;
yellow jersey prize, xiii, 164 – 65, 166. See also win-
during the early 1900s, 22, 23, 28; during the
ners, Tour de France
1920s, 38, 85; during the 1930s, 43, 88, 94 – 95,
Young, Patrick, 217nn28 – 29, 219n92, 219n99
193; during the 1940s, 53, 87, 94 – 95, 146, photo
Yugoslavian riders, 44n
section; during the 1950s, 82, 170; during the
1960s, 100 – 101, 103, 149, 170, 172, 174; during
Zabel, Erik, 192
the 1970s, 107, 176; during the 1980s, 79, 107,
Zeldin, Theodore, 147
139, 149, 161, 176 – 77, 180 – 81, photo section;
Zoetemelk, Joop, 78
Z team, 181
early 2000s, 194
Zülle, Alex, 185, 187
Document Outline
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1. Sport, Bicycling, and Globalization in the Print Era: Convergences and Divergences
Chapter 2. The Tour, Greatest of the Turn-of-the- Century Bicycle Races
Chapter 3. The Tour and Television: A Love- Hate Story
Chapter 4. The French School of Cycling
Chapter 5. The Tour in the Provinces: Sport and Small Cities in the Global Age
Chapter 6. The Tour’s Globalizing Agenda in the Television Age
Chapter 7. The Global Tour and Its Stars
Afterword: Doping and the Tour on the World Stage
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index