How I Won the Yellow Jumper : Dispatches from the Tour de France

from PDCRead

I have watched the Tour on Channel 4 and now ITV 4 for many many years now, and read as much about the sport and the riders as I can. It was nice to read up on the view from the journalist. Boulting was a football journalist before landing in France 2 days before the start of the 2004 tour with a...

from Belsornia

The 2003 Tour de France: the ITV coverage had gained a new, and staggeringly annoying, roving reporter, Ned Boulting. I would never have imagined that nine years down the line I would be choosing to read his book. 'How I Won the Yellow Jumper' is a fun and entertaining meander along Boulting's jo...

from kukulaj

A fun enough read but mostly just a collection of silly tellings of silly tales. It's really targeted to a British audience - I'm from the USA and found a lot of the language tricky. Even the title - I'd suspect most USA folks don't know that what we call a sweater, the Brits call a jumper. Beyon...