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“Impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic, and improper,” read a section of the IOC’s report following the Stockholm Games on women’s competitions. Even”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

“To their right, behind a row of nearer peaks, stood Mont Blanc, the tallest in Western Europe—a monument to those things humans can crawl their way up but not alter.”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

“Mounted on these machines, if equally proficient in the use of them, the average man and woman are nearly equal as they perhaps ever can be in any undertaking requiring muscular energy and skill.”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

“has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

“He padded his training with substances to improve his abilities, though he was hardly the only one. Strychnine stimulated muscle activity. Nitroglycerine improved his breathing, though it risked hallucinations and exhaustion. Ether deadened his pains, even while he rode, one hand removed from the handlebars, a handkerchief lifted to his face. It was tolerated by everyone—pharmaceutical companies advertised in l’Auto, and the drugs were freely given out by team trainers. Henri rubbed chloroform against his gums and dropped liquid cocaine into the corners of his eyes.”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

“Pierre believed sports should be competitions among men and exist for no other aim than honor or glory or achievement. He believed athletics had the power to achieve something close to peace, taking his inspiration from the Olympic Truce of the ancient Greek games and an agreement that prevented the host country from being attacked while the Olympics were ongoing.”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

“He padded his training with substances to improve his abilities, though he was hardly the only one. Strychnine stimulated muscle activity. Nitroglycerine improved his breathing, though it risked hallucinations and exhaustion. Ether deadened his pains, even while he rode, one hand removed from the handlebars, a handkerchief lifted to his face. It was tolerated by everyone—pharmaceutical companies advertised in l’Auto, and the drugs were freely given out by team trainers. Henri rubbed chloroform against his gums and dropped liquid cocaine into the corners of his eyes. He avoided alcohol due to its lingering effects the next day, but in that year’s Tour, it was unclear what the state of drinking water would be in cities closer to the front.”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling,” Susan B. Anthony had said to Nellie Bly as the journalist interviewed the suffragette for an article published in the February 2nd, 1896, Sunday edition of the New York World. “It has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

“On Ocean Parkway, in New York City, administrators had built the first path dedicated to bicycle use.”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France

“Climbers are unique racers, myth and fool.”
― Adin Dobkin, Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France