Book description
This is not a 100,000-word, minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow account of
the 2011 Tour de France.
This is not the story of Cadel Evans.
This is not the story of Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck, or Bradley Wiggins.
And it's not even the story of Mark Cavendish.
(Although he is in it quite a lot.)
This is the story of the lesser-known heroes; the Johnny
Hoogerlands, the Thomas Voecklers, the hitchhikers, the maniac press
drivers, Norbert Dentressangle and the greatest ever Tour de France*.
I was there. And this is what I saw. That is all.
In this 20,000-word digital short, ITV's Ned Boulting, author of
How I Won the Yellow Jumper, takes an honest and
idiosyncratic look at the unforgettable 2011 Tour de France, when Mark
Cavendish won the Green Jersey.
*probably
Ned Boulting started his broadcasting career at Sky in 1997, working
as a reporter alongside Jeff Stelling on the now legendary show Soccer
Saturday. In 2006 he was given the Royal Television Society's Sports
Reporter of the Year Award. He has presented threeTours of Britain for
ITV, as well as the inaugural Tour Series, and contributed features and
live reports on eight Tours de France. He is the author of the
much-loved
How I Won the Yellow Jumper
.
