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Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson - Softcover

Fotheringham, William

 
9780224061872: Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0224061879 ISBN 13: 9780224061872
Verlag: Yellow Jersey Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

The cyclist Tom Simpson was an Olympic medallist, world champion and the first Briton to wear the fabled yellow jersey of the Tour de France. He died a tragic early death on the barren moonscape of the Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour. Almost 35 years on, hundreds of fans still make the pilgrimage to the windswept memorial which marks the spot where he died. A man of contradictions, Simpson was one of the first cyclists to admit to using banned drugs and was accused of fixing races, yet the dapper "Major Tom" inspired awe and affection for the obsessive will to win which was ultimately to cost him his life. This is an authoritative evaluation of Simpson's death, and of the life that led to it, revisiting the places and people associated with him.

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William Fotheringham is 36 years old. He was born in Somerset and after leaving school went to Cambridge University to study Languages. He has raced bikes for over twenty years but so far has resisted the temptation to take drugs.

Aus dem Klappentext

Velo magazine as the best cycling biography ever written, this is the definitive account of the life of Tom Simpson, Britain s greatest cyclist.

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Verlag
Yellow Jersey Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0224061879
ISBN 13 
9780224061872
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
242
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