Tour de France on the cycling calendar. And whereas the other grand tours have only ever been cancelled due to global conflict, Spain went four years without a Vuelta in the 1950s because nobody could be bothered.Still, I finished the book in a single sitting.
By page 25 I had absorbed a potted account of the 1941 Vuelta a España, focused on the man who won it, Julián Berrendero, and on how he had spent the previous five years of his life.
By page 25 I knew how I would be spending the next few months of mine.The story of the 1941 Vuelta a España actually begins at the 1936 Tour de France.
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