Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More: Backstage at the Tour De France

Book ID/图书代码： 10010005B07882

English Summary/英文概要： Recently, there has been a glut of books on Le Tour de France. None, however, got quite as close to the race as Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More will, which is Johnny Green’s account of the 2003 and 2004 races from inside the security cordon, mingling with the cyclists, press and the ’Credit Lyonnais trophy girls’ in equal measure. He managed to blag his way right to the inner sanctum, to chat to the likes of Sheryl Crow and David Millar (in 2003) and the many stagehands behind the scenes on the three-week tour. The only place he didn’t make it was into the doping van. Fittingly, from the former road manager of The Clash, Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More ...is a kind of rock ’n’ roll account of life on the road with Le Tour.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 阿姆斯特朗又赢了，破记录地第六次获得环法冠军，然而Sheryl Crow才是那位高高站立在比利牛斯山脉骄傲地告诉Johnny Green现在自行车赛的魅力已赶上摇滚音乐曾经带来风潮。 没有记时测试，也不用分析链轮,Green出发了，秉承了历史学家、美食家、旅行家、观察家并为现代环法比赛力下汗马功劳的Elie Wermelinger的精神，准备要把那喧闹的场景一一捕捉下来，领会到环法比赛与比赛途径的乡间小道之间深刻的关联，以及法国人与环法比赛缠绵悱恻的情感。对Green来说，环法比赛意义不仅仅局限在比赛本身，这是一种审视法国和世界的姿态。在当代世界里，大明星是可望而不可及的，所以环法比赛显然和这个时代有点格格不入。 此外,Green还被那些穿着绚丽、花俏的赛车手深深吸引了：以悲剧色彩结束一生的意大利著名自行车运动员马可·潘塔尼、穿着接满电路的贴身一件套的套装的马里奥·西伯里尼，还有新生代未来赛车冠军Vladimir Karpets, Tommy Voeckler。他还提到了曾经的伟大赛手们，譬如连续五次得到了环法大赛的冠军艾迪· 默克斯、每一次开过终点线时都要弄一弄头发的雨果.高比勒。 其实《再使一把劲：走进环法自行车大赛幕后》更多的还是要捕捉到当环法联赛把激动人心的赛事带到那些荒芜人烟时那种兴奋的情景，窥视这个地球上最伟大的赛事真正运作的模式。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Johnny Green has a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Lancaster University. After spending five years on the road with The Clash he left the music business and eventually became Kent county education adviser on sex and drugs. He lives in Whitstable, Kent.

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