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Butcher Blacksmith Acrobat Sweep
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Author : Peter Cossins
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-06-08
Butcher Blacksmith Acrobat Sweep written by Peter Cossins and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
From the winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Cycling Book of the Year 2018 The first Tour de France in 1903 was a colourful affair full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating. Its riders included characters like Maurice Garin, an Italian-born Frenchman, said to have been swapped for a round of cheese by his parents in order to smuggle him into France to clean chimneys as a teenager, Hippolyte Aucouturier with his trademark handlebar moustache, and amateurs like Jean Dargassies, a blacksmith who had never raced before. Would this ramshackle pack of cyclists draw crowds to throng France's rutted roads and cheer the first Tour heroes? Surprisingly it did, and, all thanks to a marketing ruse dreamed up to revive struggling newspaper L'Auto, cycling would never be the same again. Peter Cossins takes us through the inaugural Tour de France, painting a nuanced portrait of France in the early 1900s, to see where the greatest sporting event of all began.
Full Gas
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Author : Peter Cossins
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-06-07
Full Gas written by Peter Cossins and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-07 with Sports & Recreation categories.
** WINNER OF THE CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2019 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS** So how do you win a bike race? Riding as fast as you could for as long as you could was the main tactic in the early days of road racing when Grand Tours could be won by hours. Now a minute’s delay thanks to a puncture could ruin a rider’s chances over a three-week race and the sport is described as nothing less than chess on wheels. The intricacies and complexities of cycling are what makes it so appealing: an eye for opportunity and a quick mind are just as crucial to success as a 'big engine' or good form. How do you cope with crosswinds, cobbles, elbows-out sprints, weaving your way through a teeming peloton? Why are steady nerves one of the best weapons in a rider’s arsenal and breakaway artists to be revered? Where do you see the finest showcase of tactical brilliance? Peter Cossins takes us on to the team buses to hear pro cyclists and directeurs sportifs explain their tactics: when it went right, when they got it wrong – from sprinting to summits, from breakaways to bluffing. Hectic, thrilling, but sometimes impenetrable – watching a bike race can baffle as much as entertain. Full Gas is the essential guide to make sense of all things peloton.
How The Race Was Won
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Author : Peter Cossins
language : en
Publisher: VeloPress
Release Date : 2018-11-27
How The Race Was Won written by Peter Cossins and has been published by VeloPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Great cyclists are born, but winning cyclists are made by the brains of their managers. The craft of racing requires a non-stop obsession with detail: watching rivals, judging the strength of a break, knowing the course, and picking the right moment to seize a fleeting opportunity and turn it into a big win.How the Race Was Won investigates the fine details of bicycle racing through extensive interviews with the sport’s brightest minds. Author Peter Cossins has interrogated the riders, managers, and directors who have shaped the sport, and reveals how they learned to navigate the invisible undercurrent that sweeps their riders to the finish line.From the moment when George Pilkington Mills was paced to victory by a wily teammate in the 1891 edition of Bordeaux–Paris to Chris Froome’s modern emphasis on marginal gains, How the Race Was Won embraces the full sweep of cycling history, making stops along the way to analyze how tactics first evolved and how today’s winning minds continue to build on what came before.Behind every great cyclist is a race wizard reading the race, watching the rivals, outwitting the competition, and anticipating the one perfect moment to launch a rider to victory. How the Race Was Won is a thrilling and unprecedented look at how victory is won, how rivals are vanquished, and how pure speed can only prevail when supported by deep brainpower.
The Yellow Jersey
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Author : Peter Cossins
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-06-27
The Yellow Jersey written by Peter Cossins and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
* WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR* Discover this 100-year anniversary celebration of the hardest-earned and most sacred prize in sport, the Tour de France's Yellow Jersey. In 2019, the cycling world will celebrate the 100th anniversary of sport's most iconic and distinguished prize: the Yellow Jersey. Beautifully produced and packed full of interviews with riders such as Chris Froome, Thomas Voeckler and the oldest living wearer of the Yellow Jersey at 94, Antonin Rolland, The Yellow Jersey is a fitting celebration of the 'maillot jaune'. In 1919 the leading rider was first instructed to wear the Yellow Jersey, following a campaign from fans and journalists who were struggling to identify the winning rider. 100 years on, the jersey has passed into almost sacred status. You'll never see an amateur rider wearing yellow - it is reserved purely for those who have sacrificed themselves in the world's greatest race. Cossins will take the reader on a journey to the origins of the jersey and its early winners. He'll explore the effect of wearing yellow as a motivator and occasionally as a curse. Beautifully produced with original photography, The Yellow Jersey is an exquisite tribute to the greatest trophy in sport. 'Without doubt the most beautiful book to land on our desk this year... we can't recommend this book enough' Cycling Weekly
The Monuments
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Author : Peter Cossins
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-03-16
The Monuments written by Peter Cossins and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-16 with Sports & Recreation categories.
An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary “classic” races in world cycling. The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called 'Monuments', the five legendary races that are the sport's equivalent of golf's majors or the grand slams in tennis. Milan–Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the Tour of Lombardy date back more than a century, and each of them is an anomaly in modern-day sport, the cycling equivalent of the Monaco Grand Prix. Time has changed them to a degree, but they remain as brutally testing as they ever have been. They provide the sport's outstanding one-day performers with a chance to measure themselves against each other and their predecessors in the most challenging tests in world cycling. From the bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of the Paris–Roubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the Tour of Flanders, each race is as unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme exhaustion to win them and enter their epic history. Over the course of a century, only Rik Van Looy, Eddy Merckx and Roger De Vlaeminck have won all five races. Yet victory in a single edition of a Monument guarantees a rider lasting fame. For some, that one victory has even more cachet than success in a grand tour. Each of the Monuments has a fascinating history, featuring tales of the finest and largest characters in the sport. In this updated edition of The Monuments Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these extraordinary races and the riders they have immortalised.
Full Gas
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Author : Peter Cossins
language : en
Publisher: Arrow
Release Date : 2019-06-06
Full Gas written by Peter Cossins and has been published by Arrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-06 with Sports & Recreation categories.
So how do you win a bike race? The author takes us on to the team buses to hear pro cyclists and directeurs sportifs explain their tactics: when it went right, when they got it wrong - from sprinting to summits, from breakaways to bluffing
Racing Hard
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Author : William Fotheringham
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2013-06-06
Racing Hard written by William Fotheringham and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Few British schoolchildren of the seventies can have been as obsessed with the Tour de France as William Fotheringham, who smuggled copies of Miroir du Cyclisme into lessons to read inside his books. He saw the Tour for the first time in 1984, avidly following that year's race on television in the Normandy village where he lived. Since joining the Guardian in 1989, William Fotheringham has been at the forefront of British cycling journalism. Here he reflects on the events of the last twenty-three years - the triumphs, the tragedies and the scandals that have engulfed the world's most demanding sport. Key articles from his career are annotated with notes and reflections. What would he have said if he'd known then what we all know now about Lance Armstrong? Which cyclists and teams were not all they seemed? And which victories still rank as the greatest of all time? This is the definitive collection of cycling reporting.
Gustaaf Deloor De La Vuelta A La Luna
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Author : Juanfran de la Cruz
language : es
Publisher: Libros de Ruta
Release Date : 2018-03-27
Gustaaf Deloor De La Vuelta A La Luna written by Juanfran de la Cruz and has been published by Libros de Ruta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
La biografía del ganador de las dos primeras ediciones de la Vuelta a España, el belga Gustaaf Deloor, nos trae la historia de los comienzos de la gran vuelta española. Pese a la importancia de su gesta, Gustavo, como le llamaba la prensa local de la época, no llegó nunca a ser un corredor muy conocido y mucho menos reconocido. El periodista especializado en ciclismo Juanfran de la Cruz ganó el II Certamen de literatura ciclista "Un libro en ruta" con este libro. Gustaaf Deloor. Un nombre imprescindible para entender la historia de la Vuelta a España. Fue el vencedor de las dos primeras ediciones de la Vuelta, en 1935 y 1936. El ciclista belga es, sin embargo, un completo desconocido para la mayoría. Compitió junto a su hermano Alfons en las más grandes pruebas ciclistas europeas, aunque era la ronda española su preferida: "¿Cómo no amar a la Vuelta a España, a esta vuelta, a un país, cuando además, he sido objetivo de tan emocionadoras demostraciones por parte de su público hidalgo y caballero". Truncada su carrera deportiva por la Guerra Civil española y la II Guerra Mundial, Gustavo (como le llamaba la prensa española de la época) rehizo su vida como mecánico en Estados Unidos, llegando a trabajar en el proyecto Apolo que llevaría la primera misión tripulada a la luna. El periodista Juanfran de la Cruz, tras una larga investigación y tirando de hemeroteca y entrevistas personales con familiares y amigos que conocieron personalmente a Gustaaf Deloor, recoge en este libro todos los vaivenes de la vida del gran campeón belga.
The Yellow Jersey
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Author : Peter Cossins
language : en
Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press
Release Date : 2019
The Yellow Jersey written by Peter Cossins and has been published by Yellow Jersey Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Award winners categories.
From the winner of the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Cycling Book of the Year 2018 In 2019, the cycling world will celebrate the 100th anniversary of sport's most iconic and distinguished prize: the Yellow Jersey. Beautifully produced and packed full of interviews with riders such as Chris Froome, Thomas Voeckler and the oldest living wearer of the Yellow Jersey at 94, Antonin Rolland, The Yellow Jersey is a fitting celebration of the 'maillot jaune'. In 1919 the leading rider was first instructed to wear the Yellow Jersey, following a campaign from fans and journalists who were struggling to to identify the winning rider. 100 years on, the jersey has passed into almost sacred status. You'll never see an amateur rider wearing yellow - it is reserved purely for those who have sacrificed themselves in the world's greatest race. Cossins will take the reader on a journey to the origins of the jersey and its early winners. He'll explore the effect of wearing yellow as a motivator and occasionally as a curse. Beautifully produced with original photography, The Yellow Jersey is an exquisite tribute to the greatest trophy in sport.
Letters To Camondo
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Author : Edmund de Waal
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Letters To Camondo written by Edmund de Waal and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with History categories.
A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art collector who created a spectacular house in Paris, now the Musée Nissim de Camondo, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art. The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople, “the Rothschilds of the East,” who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society, as well as being targets of antisemitism—much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Moise de Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with art for his son, Nissim; after Nissim was killed in the First World War, the house was bequeathed to the French state. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis. After de Waal, one of the world’s greatest ceramic artists, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory.