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The Daily Telegraph Book Of The Tour De France
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Author : Martin Smith
language : en
Publisher: Aurum
Release Date : 2012-06-03
The Daily Telegraph Book Of The Tour De France written by Martin Smith and has been published by Aurum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-03 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A man, a bike and the open road. What could be simpler? Certainly not the Tour de France, the annual travelling circus which for more than a century has been the ultimate test of sporting endurance.There’s been pain. There’s been joy. There’s been death. There’s been derring-do of mythic proportions. There’s been cheating. There’ve been drugs. There’ve always been drugs. And there’s always been the Daily Telegraph. On the peaks of Mont Ventoux, Alpe D’Huez and Col du Galibier, in amongst the picnicking, partying crowds, whizzing through London in 2007’s wondrous opening stage, dropping in and out of the peloton, the Telegraph has been there for every turn of the wheel. The book features eyewitness accounts of cycling greats Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain and Lance Armstrong, along with details of the contest’s darker side – including the 1967 death of Tom Simpson and the stain of doping. Boasting contemporary, firsthand reports from leading cycling correspondents including J.B Wadley, David Saunders and Phil Liggett, this book captures the full drama of the tour. Chris Boardman and David Millar provide views from the saddle; James Cracknell swaps his boat for a bike on a pre-race reconnaissance mission; Paul Hayward catalogues the 1998 ‘Tour of Shame’; while Brendan Gallagher eulogises the colossi who bestrode the race, and searches for their modern-day successors. Together, they chronicle the greatest show on two wheels. Martin Smith was formerly assistant sports editor and sports writer at the Daily Telegraph, where he worked for more than twenty years. An enthusiastic cyclist in his youth, he graduated to the less arduous four wheels as soon as he was able.
French Revolutions
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Author : Tim Moore
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-18
French Revolutions written by Tim Moore and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting even in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it. Racing old men on butchers' bikes and chased by cows, Moore soon resorts to standard race tactics - cheating and drugs - in a hilarious and moving tale of true adventure.
Jan Ullrich
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Author : Daniel Friebe
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2022-06-09
Jan Ullrich written by Daniel Friebe and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most naturally talented cyclist of his generation, and also one of the most controversial champions of the Tour de France. 'Magnificent' – Matt Dickinson, The Times 'A superlative biography as well as social and sporting history' – Observer In 1997, Jan Ullrich announced himself to the world by obliterating his rivals at the Tour de France and becoming Germany’s first ever winner. Everyone agreed: Jan Ullrich would dominate the future of cycling. But he never quite managed it. This is a gripping account of how unbearable expectation, mental and physical fragility, the effects of a complicated childhood, a morally corrupt sport and one individual – Lance Armstrong – can conspire to reroute destiny. Acclaimed journalist Daniel Friebe takes us from the legacy of East Germany’s drugs programme to the pinnacle of pro cycling and asks: what price are you willing to pay for immortality?
Bad Blood
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Author : Jeremy Whittle
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-05-27
Bad Blood written by Jeremy Whittle and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Even the biggest cycling fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith Bad Blood is the story of Jeremy Whittle's journey from unquestioning fan to Tour de France insider and confirmed sceptic. It's about broken friendships and a sport divided; about having to choose sides in the war against doping; about how galloping greed and corporate opportunism have led the Tour de France to the brink of destruction. Part personal memoir, part devastating exposé of a sport torn apart by drugs and scandal, Bad Blood is a love letter to one man's past, and a warning to cycling's future. ‘Whatever you think about doping, you must read this book ... Well-balanced, considered, compelling’ Rouleur Shortlisted for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Slaying The Badger
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Author : Richard Moore
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Release Date : 2014
Slaying The Badger written by Richard Moore and has been published by Jonathan Cape this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Cyclists categories.
Rivalry, mind games and a test of ultimate endurance- this is the unforgettable 1986 Tour de France Greg LeMond, 'L'Americain'-fresh-faced, prodigious newcomer. This is supposed to be his year. Bernard Hinault, 'The Badger'-aggressive, headstrong, five-time winner of the Tour. He has pledged his unwavering support to his team mate, LeMond. The team is everything in cycling, so the world watches, stunned, as LeMond and Hinault's explosive rivalry plays out over three high-octane weeks. Slaying the Badgerrelives the adrenaline and agony as LeMond battles to become the first American to win the Tour, with the Badger relentlessly on the attack. 'The race and the book build towards a gripping page-turning climax which you don't want to end'Daily Telegraph
The Secret Race
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Author : Tyler Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2012-09-05
The Secret Race written by Tyler Hamilton and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans . . . The book’s power is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity. . . . The Secret Race isn’t just a game changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. It’s the game ender.”—Outside NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The Secret Race is the book that rocked the world of professional cycling—and exposed, at long last, the doping culture surrounding the sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong. Former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world’s top-ranked cyclists—and a member of Lance Armstrong’s inner circle. Over the course of two years, New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result is an explosive page-turner of a book that takes us deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to win that they would do almost anything to gain an edge. For the first time, Hamilton recounts his own battle with depression and tells the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong. This edition features a new Afterword, in which the authors reflect on the developments within the sport, and involving Armstrong, over the past year. The Secret Race is a courageous, groundbreaking act of witness from a man who is as determined to reveal the hard truth about his sport as he once was to win the Tour de France. With a new Afterword by the authors. “Loaded with bombshells and revelations.”—VeloNews “[An] often harrowing story . . . the broadest, most accessible look at cycling’s drug problems to date.”—The New York Times “ ‘If I cheated, how did I get away with it?’ That question, posed to SI by Lance Armstrong five years ago, has never been answered more definitively than it is in Tyler Hamilton’s new book.”—Sports Illustrated “Explosive.”—The Daily Telegraph (London)
The Telegraph Book Of The Olympics
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Author : Martin Smith
language : en
Publisher: Aurum
Release Date : 2012-05-01
The Telegraph Book Of The Olympics written by Martin Smith and has been published by Aurum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
For the record-breaking third time London will be hosting the Olympic Games in 2012. From the inception of Baron Pierre de Courbetin’s crusade to revive the Games of the ancient Greeks, in the 1890s, through the triumphs and disasters of twenty-nine Olympiads, The Daily Telegraph has been there to provide eye-witness accounts of the greatest sporting moments in history with characteristic authority. This comprehensive and colourful review of the summer Olympics takes you back to 1908, the first time London held the Games, with Dorando Pietri’s infamous disqualification in the marathon. Then to Fanny Blankers-Koen and Emil Zatopek lifeting the War-scarred capital in the Austerity Games of 1948. With more recent record-breaking moments from the Olympics of Sydney, Athens and Beijing, this is the perfect scene-setter for the Games’ return to London. From Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett to Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis, Kelly Holmes, Steve Redgrave, Ian Thorpe and Daley Thompson, the tears and the glory of all the heroes and villains from 116 years of Olympic history are collected here in this wonderful anthology of the greatest show on earth.
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.
Lanterne Rouge
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Author : Max Leonard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-06-14
Lanterne Rouge written by Max Leonard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Cycling categories.
A lively and entertaining history of the riders who have come in last place during the grueling 3,000-mile Tour de France
The Fifth Child
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Author : Doris Lessing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-03-20
The Fifth Child written by Doris Lessing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-20 with Young adult fiction categories.
Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike, ' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world..