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2010 is the centenary of the introduction of the Pyrenees into the
Tour de France route. It was a contentious decision at that time to
send riders on their primitive bicycles into the high mountains.
How Tour organiser Henri Desgrange was tricked by his assistant,
Georges Steines, into agreeing to direct his riders over
2,000-metre cols is one of the great legends of Tour history. The
1910 race was won by the French champion Octave Lapize, who added
to the controversy on the top of the Col du Tourmalet by shouting
out to the Tour officials, 'Vous etes des assassins! Oui, des
assassins!' - 'You are murderers! Yes, murderers!' For Lapize
himself, this was his only Tour victory, but he was an outstanding
one-day classics rider and also a fine track cyclist, winning a
bronze medal at the 1908 Olympics. During the First World War
Lapize, a fighter pilot in the French army, was shot down in June,
1917, and died in a hospital the following month. For all his
initial misgivings, Desgrange had no hesitation in calling the
Pyrenean venture a great success and those high cols immediately
became an indispensable part of any Tour route. In the 100 years
since Octave Lapize's first epic ascent the Tourmalet has figured
73 times. Author, Jean Bobet, writes: In the early 1950s, my
brother Louison and I were living in the Eastern suburbs of Paris.
Each time we went training, we would cycle past the Cafe Lapize in
Villiers-sur-Marne. This Lapize seemed to follow us everywhere. At
the time, Lapize toe straps were the only ones on the market. At
the Montlhery motor racing circuit there was the famous slope known
as the Cote Lapize, which determined the outcome of every race held
there. Back in Villiers-sur-Marne, you couldn't find Octave Lapize
at the cafe any more. We knew he had been killed in the war, the
1914-18 one. People even said he died a hero. The Cafe Lapize
belonged to the champion's father. One day, I ducked under the
arbour at the entrance and went inside. Across the large room, I
came face to face with the great Octave Lapize, in a large pastel
drawing on the wall, resplendent in his French champion's tricolour
jersey. I was looking at the portrait of a true aristocrat. An
inscription underneath read "Winner of the Tour de France,
Paris-Roubaix (three times), Paris-Brussels (three times).' I spent
fifty years thinking about Octave Lapize. Then, one day, I decided
to follow his tracks and tell his story. Thanks to him, I
experienced the golden age of cycling at the beginning of the
twentieth century. The Lapize years.
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Animated adventure about a sled dog team, led by the adventurous
husky, Balto. Balto begins to worry that the sled team is under
threat, as more and more people are relying on aeroplanes to
deliver the mail. A race is set up to see who can deliver the mail
fastest - Balto's team, or one of the new bush pilots. But when
Balto's team wins the race with no sign of the pilot, he begins to
suspect the worst, and leads the gang on an epic adventure to
rescue him and bring him home.
"Tomorrow we ride. that's what my brother Louison and I used to say
as we arranged to meet: every day while we were racing cyclists,
and then just on Sundays when we weren't competing any more. We
kept on riding until the end of his life, because even then -
especially then, perhaps - we always understood each other best on
bikes. We had always needed a bike beneath us. In the words of the
song, we took the high road and the low road: in cycling, the glory
days always have less glorious ones on their tail. Thanks to
Louison, I had the good fortune to ride with him through the golden
years, the 50s: the years of post-war reconstruction, of Coppi and
Bartali, of Kubler and Koblet, of Gaul and Van Steenbergen,
Anquetil and Darrigade. These are names that speak of the
aristocracy of cycling, and the fierceness of the competition.
Every day, Louison and I took pleasure in cycling together, whether
on our intimate journeys through Brittany or the Alps, or in the
frenzy of the Tour de France or Giro d'Italia." Jean Bobet. Jean
Bobet's book is not so much a biography of his superstar brother
Louison, nor his own autobiography, but rather an account of the
intermingling of their two lives. And what lives - Louison, triple
Tour de France winner and World Champion and Jean (no mean rider
himself) who gave up an academic career to ride in the service of
his brother in pursuit of sporting glory. Set in the period after
the war, this story brings alive the romance of the great races and
the star riders of the day whose exploits lifted the public spirit
after years of conflict and economic hardship.
Soul Rise is collection of poems that have evolved from a poem
called Share. These have become expressions of the soul born to
touch the soul of each reader. After each expression there is a
Soul Reflections page, designed so that readers can write down
their own reflections with how the words may have touched, moved,
or affected them in some way. The poems invite you into a deeper
understanding of self and of others, designed so you can share the
expressions at your favourite spiritual gatherings, communities or
with friends and family.
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