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The Yellow Jersey Club
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Author : Edward Pickering
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-07-02
The Yellow Jersey Club written by Edward Pickering and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Yellow Jersey Club contains just twenty-six living members. To become one of this exclusive number requires complete dedication, brutal self-sacrifice and the most extraordinary physical attributes. Yet along with the ability to climb mountains, bomb along time trials and survive all the perils of the road, what really makes a Tour de France champion? Edward Pickering set out on a mission to ask them, and gained some astonishing insights into the minds of cycling's best ever riders of the past forty years, from giants like Greg LeMond and Stephen Roche to more unfamiliar names like Bernard Thévenet and Joop Zootemelk. With his trademark sharp analysis and deft style, Pickering explores the myriad factors that combine to produce success. What does it take to accumulate such great mental strength, skill and endurance? What are the differences as well as the key factors in common? What sets these men apart from the rest of the field? The Yellow Jersey Club gives the reader unprecedented access into the secrets of the greats of cycling.
The Yellow Jersey
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Author : Ralph Hurne
language : en
Publisher: Breakaway Books
Release Date : 2016-04-24
The Yellow Jersey written by Ralph Hurne and has been published by Breakaway Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-24 with Sports & Recreation categories.
“This is sports fiction at its very best. Mr. Hurne has a cool, downbeat style descended from Lardner and Hemingway, and a fine hand with the hairpin turns of suspense.” —The New York Times Book Review “The greatest cycling novel ever written. . . . An underground classic. . . . A cycling book that follows a different course—one with drama and characters you can relate to, whose actions raise questions about life on and off the bicycle. . . . The heart of The Yellow Jersey is the Tour de France itself, which Hurne views as a metaphor for life. . . . Thoroughly entertaining.” —Bicycling “Full of wit, charm, excitement, and intelligence.” —Publishers Weekly Terry Davenport is nearly washed up. After a career of good but never great bicycle racing in Europe, he is past his prime, and given lately to chasing women rather than leading the pack through the Alps. He contemplates how he might find a comfortable retirement, and is wallowing in an existential crisis. But his final Tour de France—which he rides only as a favor to his young protegé, to pace him through the early stages—develops by a series of accidents into the chance of a lifetime. And though Davenport is old, he is wily and tough and fearless. His arduous, painful, heroic performance in the face of impossible odds is unforgettable. A sports thriller—with stunning descriptions of competitive cycling—and a keen meditation on mortality, The Yellow Jersey is an extraordinary novel.
The Yellow Jersey
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Author : Ralph Hurne
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1973
The Yellow Jersey written by Ralph Hurne and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Cycling categories.
Behind The Yellow Jersey
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Author : Michael Cusack
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-06-02
Behind The Yellow Jersey written by Michael Cusack and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-02 with categories.
In October 1974, I was placed on the Irish Olympic Squad for Montreal, along with Sean Kelly, Alan McCormack, Tony Lally, John Shortt and Peter Morton. We would be sponsored by the French company Pernod, and spend three nights a week weight training all winter under the supervision of a coach in a Dublin gym. Kelly would be exempt from the winter training, as he was still living in Tipperary. After the gym sessions and long training spins in the Wicklow Mountains, it was time for the new season of races. As I shivered at the starting line of the Dublin to Drogheda handicap event, I looked at the men around me. There was Kelly, already considered Ireland's greatest ever prospect; Peter Doyle, a living legend of Irish cycling who almost single-handedly won the Tour of Britain from some of the world's best cyclists; Liam Horner, winner of the famous Isle of Man International Road Race; Tony Lally, the youngest ever winner of the Tour of Ireland; Pat McQuaid, the national champion and destined to win the next two Tours of Ireland; Alan McCormack, who would later become the youngest Irishman to complete a grand tour; Oliver McQuaid, who would go to the Montreal Olympics the following year and his brother Kieron, who had ridden the Munich Olympics...then there was me, with a second place in the junior championships to my name. To say that I felt out of my depth would be a massive understatement. Four years and three hundred races later, I found out that fellow Dubliner Stephen Roche would be my roommate for the duration of the eight day Tour of Ireland. We had both been selected on the Irish team, and Stephen had already established himself as a leading contender for the overall classification with a strong performance into Cavan, where he finished with the leaders. Our hotel room in Cavan town was damp and cold, but Roche was in fine form and he chatted about his prospects of winning the entire race. "I'll help you any way I can Stephen," I assured him, although privately I was worried about just getting through the next day's stage. "I'd say the day after tomorrow is the big one," he said. "I've got to have a go on the Gap of Mamore and put some time into Shortt and Millar." He was referring to the most feared climb in the entire race. The Gap of Mamore in the far northwest of the country is an incredibly steep ascent on what is now known as the Wild Atlantic Way. It was once the only route to the land of Urris, where the inhabitants were often entirely cut off from the outside world during bad winter storms. It turned out to be a very cold and wet tour. I never once heard Roche complain about the conditions or anything else for that matter. His powers of recovery from hard races were beyond anything I had ever seen. At breakfast, he chatted away about various riders in the race, but was mainly focused on the British Airways squad and Billy Kerr as the riders to beat. Roche and myself were already good friends, but it was during that tour I really learned that he was not just an above average racing cyclist, but rather an extraordinary force of nature who was capable of exerting himself to the absolute limit day after day. His powers of recovery were nothing short of miraculous. At nineteen years of age, he was already displaying the prowess that would later make him the top cyclist in the world.
Yellow Jersey
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Yellow Jersey written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Program music categories.
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 Ronde
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Author : Edward Pickering
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-03-08
The Ronde written by Edward Pickering and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
'It wasn't a race but a war game' Bernard Hinault 'Without question, the hardest one-day bike race ever created' George Hincapie ?The Tour of Flanders – known to cycling fans as the Ronde – is the biggest one-day bike race in the world. It is a potent mix of grit, cobbles, steep climbs, narrow roads, national pride, beer, brutal weather and the maddest, most passionate fans in the sport. It’s the Tour de France boiled down into a single day of non-stop action – the Belgian equivalent of the Grand National, Wimbledon and the FA Cup final. And there’s yet more to it than that. Edward Pickering tells the story of the Tour of Flanders, its history, culture and meaning, through the prism of the 2011 Ronde, an incredible edition that was one of the most exciting bike races of the past half-century. He weaves the narrative of that day into a broader study of the race, with eyewitness accounts from the key locations of the Ronde and dozens of interviews with the riders. The Ronde is a textured portrait of a race, but it also explores the deep links between bike races and the landscape and culture in which they take place, and explains how cycling works, with the most detailed analysis of a single event ever seen.
Greg Lemond
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Author : Guy Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Greg Lemond written by Guy Andrews and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Sports & Recreation categories.
'It never gets easier, you just go faster.' Greg LeMondBeing a three-time Tour de France winner is only half of the Greg LeMond story. Equally at home on the cobbles of the spring classics as he was on the mountains of the grand tours LeMond rode a full racing season from spring to autumn. His never-say-die spirit also bagged him two World Championship golds and a hatful of podiums at the world's toughest bike races. LeMond was a talented all-rounder, with a reputation as one of the canniest and taciturn racers of his generation. He was admired by his peers and respected by many of his rivals. But things could have been very different, when in 1987 his story took a tragic turn: While out hunting, he was accidentally shot. He lost so much blood that his life hung in the balance, but his recovery was as miraculous as what happened next, when he came back to the world of bicycle racing. In LeMond: Yellow Jersey Racer, which presents LeMond's career year by year, big wins are documented with unique and exclusive photography depicting the racing times of this exceptional bike rider. Many of the protagonists in LeMond's world - rivals, team mates and friends - have been interviewed. They speak candidly about his career, how their lives crossed and his legacy in the sport of cycling. Foreword by Greg LeMond.
Fear And Loathing In La Liga
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Author : Sid Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-09-26
Fear And Loathing In La Liga written by Sid Lowe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘A history of modern Spain told through one of world football's most intense rivalries’ Independent ‘Sports Book of the Year’ Sunday Times It’s Messi vs Ronaldo, it’s Catalonia vs Castilla. It’s the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs Franco’s fascists. It’s majestic goals and mesmerising skills, red cards and bench brawls. It’s the best two teams on the planet going face to face and toe to toe. It’s more than a game. It’s a war. It’s Barcelona vs Real Madrid. Only, it’s not that simple. From the wounds left by the civil war to the teams’ recent global domination, historian and expert on Spanish football, Sid Lowe lifts the lid on sport’s greatest rivalry. Lowe has spoken to the biggest names and the forgotten heroes who defined their clubs. Men like Alfredo Di Stéfano and Johan Cruyff as well as the only survivor of the most politically charged game in history, the Barcelona striker who knocked Madrid out of the European Cup for the first time ever, and the president who celebrated his club’s defining moment by taking a midnight dip in the Thames. By exploring the history, politics, culture, economics and language, while never forgetting the drama on the pitch, Lowe demonstrates the symbiotic nature of the relationship between these two football giants. In doing so he reveals the human story behind this explosive rivalry.
Be Careful What You Wish For
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Author : Simon Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-06-07
Be Careful What You Wish For written by Simon Jordan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ever dreamed of owning your boyhood football club? Be careful what you wish for... Simon Jordan grew up a stone's throw from Crystal Palace Football Club. As a boy he used to break into the Palace ground for a kick-about on the hallowed turf. On leaving school he entered the mobile phone business. By the age of thirty-two, he'd built a company from nothing, sold it for £75 million and bought his childhood club. By the age of forty-two Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on the owner's story and reveals for the first time how the national game really works. Jordan spares no one, least of all himself, as he takes us inside a world where hopes and aspirations sit alongside greed, self-interest, overpriced players, dodgy transfers and top-level incompetence. He doesn't hold back. Breathtakingly honest, highly controversial, humorous and full of jaw-dropping anecdotes, Be Careful What You Wish For is far more than a football book. It is a social commentary on the culture of great wealth and ambition; a Shakespearean tragedy that exposes the dark side of chasing a dream. The perfect Christmas gift for all football fans. 'One of the best football books you will ever read' Birmingham Post