The Tour de France has been running for 104 years and has completed 94 laps of France The fine spectacle of life-threatening exertion, bare-faced cheating, road-side sabotage, ludicrous clothing, extreme intimate discomfort, and grown men at the absolute end of their tethers has gathered the race an audience of millions This book looks at the history - the rivalries and controversies, the blind passions and filthy suspicions, the wheeling and the dealing and gives an insight into the race itself