{"id":7660,"date":"2021-03-14T06:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T06:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2021-03-14T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T06:50:44","slug":"new-book-captures-the-epic-tour-de-france-battle-of-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7660","title":{"rendered":"New book captures the epic Tour de France battle of 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 1989 Tour de France is arguably the greatest Tour de France ever. It saw American rider Greg LeMond overturn a 50-second deficit to France\u2019s Laurent Fignon on the final stage on the Champs \u00c9lys\u00e9es to snatch the title by a mere eight seconds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After three weeks and more than 2,000 miles in the saddle, these few seconds remain the smallest margin of victory in the race\u2019s 100+ year history.<\/p>\n<p>But, as dramatic as that Sunday afternoon on the streets of Paris was, the race wasn\u2019t just about that one time-trial. During the previous fortnight, the leader\u2019s yellow jersey had swapped back and forth between LeMond and Fignon in a titanic struggle for supremacy, a battle with more twists and turns than the maziest Alpine mountain pass. At no point during the entire three weeks were LeMond and Fignon separated by more than 53 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div    >\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In <em>Three Weeks, Eight Seconds<\/em>, <em>220 Triathlon<\/em> contributor Nige Tassell brings one of cycling\u2019s most astonishing stories to life, examining that extraordinary race in all its multi-faceted glory with fresh interviews and new perspectives and laying bare that towering heights of adrenaline, agony, excitement, torment and triumph that it produced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Three Weeks, Eight Seconds<\/em> is out now from Polaris Publishing, priced \u00a314.99.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ifootballshop.com\/liverpool-424.html' title='liverpool mens jersey'>liverpool mens jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Advertisement<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NIGE TASSELL writes about sport and music, and his work has appeared in the pages of <em>220 Triathlon<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>, <em>Sunday Times<\/em>, <em>Esquire<\/em>,\u00a0<em>FourFourTwo<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Q<\/em>\u00a0<em>and The Word<\/em>. He\u2019s also the author of\u00a0<em>The Bottom Corner: A Season With The Dreamers Of Non-League Football<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1989 Tour de France is arguably the greatest Tour de France ever. It saw American rider Greg LeMond overturn a 50-second deficit to France\u2019s Laurent Fignon on the final stage on the Champs \u00c9lys\u00e9es to snatch the title by a mere eight seconds. Advertisement After three weeks and more than 2,000 miles in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}