num_pages: 316
description:  'Paris 4 July 2003: My first Tour de France. I had never seen a bike race. I had only vaguely heard of Lance Armstrong. I had no idea what I was doing there. Yet that day I was broadcasting live on television. I fumbled my way through a few platitudes before summing up with the words ...Dave Millar just missing out on the Yellow Jumper. Yes the Yellow Jumper.'Follow Ned Boulting's (occasionally excruciating) experiences covering the world's most famous two-wheeled race. His story offers an insider's view of life behind the scenes of the Tour as well as detailing the complexities and absurdities of reporting on the race and confronting the most celebrated riders - Cavendish Wiggins Armstrong et al - seconds after they cross the line.Eight Tours on from Ned's humbling debut he has grown to respect mock adore and crave the race in equal measure. What's more he has even started to understand it. Funny and frank How I Won the Yellow Jumper is the account of Ned's journey - that same journey undertaken by many tens of thousands of cycling enthusiasts - from tour trainee to incurable fanatic.
language: English
title: How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour de France
publisher: Yellow Jersey