The World's Fastest Man, by Michael Kranish
A biography of America’s first Black sports hero
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Mythologies: Alphonse Steinès, the Tour de France and the Invention of the Pyrénées
The story of Alphonse Steinès night on the Tourmalet and the telegram he subsequently sent to Henri Desgrange has gone down in legend. Remarkably, there was no telegram, and much of what is said about Steinès’s night on the mountain is a fiction.
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Mythologies: Major Taylor, Henri Desgrange and a Wheelbarrow Full of Centimes
Legend has it that Henri Desgrange, creator of the Tour de France, once paid cycling’s first Black world champion with 10-centime coins, so many that Major Taylor needed a wheelbarrow to cart the coins away. Is there any truth in this myth?
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