Edited by route books and written by the journalist Jesús Gómez Peña, who has covered more than 20 editions of the Tour as a correspondent, the book collects the best stories of the most prestigious cycling test.
April 23, 2025 (11:45 CET)
This week the book is put on sale Chronicles on wheels: The Tour de Francefrom the Biscayan journalist Jesús Gómez Peña. This is the second book of a new collection launched by the Editorial Books of the Route, which was inaugurated with Chronicles on wheels: the Giro de Italia, by Marcos Pereda.
This time in Route books They have gone to Jesús Gómez Peña, chronicler of dozens of great turns for the newspaper The mail from Bilbao, to tell The history of the tour through its chronicles. Gómez Peña, who has covered more than 20 editions of the Large loop As a correspondent, he did a huge work for his newspaper in the weeks at the beginning of the Tour 2023 eN Bilbao. Now all those chronicles are recovered in this book, which They will take us from the beginning of the tour to the present.
Book synopsis
Sylvain Chavanel participated in eighteen editions of the Tour de France, from 2000 to 2018. No cyclist has run more. The following year, Jesús Gómez Peña He received a tribute from the organization of the Tour by twenty editions covering the career as a accredited journalist. In 2023, when the tour left Bilbao, his newspaper The mail He entrusted the work of bringing the history of the Tour de France to his readers.
-Now it is collected in the book Chronicles on wheels: The Tour de France The fruit of all that work. A hundred articles that draw a Personal trip through the history of the tour. A broad tour of its 120 years of history that will move us from the first edition of 1903 to the present. Little stories that have built the story with capital letters from the big Boucle.
De Maurice Garin in Pogacar, Pasando Por Bobet, Anquetil or Merckx, Great legends star in these chronicles in which names such as Bahamontes, Self Indurain. A detailed and, at the same time, enjoyable review of the most heroic or delusional actions that have built the myth of the Tour of France.
The book is already on sale on the editorial website and can be found in bookstores from this week.
ISBN: 978-84-12905-73-1
Pages: 304
Format: 14×22
PVP 23,95 euros.
Release date: April 25, 2025
