Sport & Exercise Research Group Lecture: A Case Study in Sports Journalism- Antoine Blondin, L’Équipe and the Tour de France
Room 1001, the Bridge, Hardiman Research BuildingA product of the early twentieth century’s ‘sport-media-industry complex’, cycling’s Tour de France has engendered novel forms and styles of newspaper coverage and has attracted the interest of a variety of writers.A prominent right-wing novelist in the early fifties, Antoine Blondin (1921-1991) was a guest follower for French sports daily L’Équipe on four stages... | Read on »