How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour de France
Ned is one of the voices of le Tour and this is an amusing book giving insights into following the tour as one of the media circus. It goes from Ned's first tour in about 2003 through to 2010 so Armstrong's wins had not been stripped from him as yet. The bonus written after original publication is 2011's tour where Cavendish had come into his own. It's no hold barred whether jokingly calling out his media colleagues or letting us know his views on cyclists, their team support staff and tour officials. A great read if you're a cycling fan. Probably not so interesting if you're not except for a passage about Johnny Hoogerland's argument with a barbed wire fence where the injuries sustained are graphically described comparing to coming under a kitchen knife. Although appalling the description is hilarious. Maybe that's just my sense of humour.
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