Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike - Softcover

Fotheringham, William

 
9780224074513: Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0224074512 ISBN 13: 9780224074513
Verlag: Yellow Jersey, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

What makes a man the greatest of all time? Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pelé to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been.

Merckx was a machine. It wasn't just the number of victories (445); it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. He didn't just beat his opponents, he crushed them. But his triumphs only tell half a story that includes horrific injury, a doping controversy and tragedy. He was nicknamed 'The Cannibal' for his insatiable appetite for victory, but the moniker did scant justice to a man who was handsome, sensitive and surprisingly anxious. Britain's leading cycling writer, William Fotheringham, goes back to speak to those who were there at the time and those who knew Merckx best to find out what made Eddy Merckx so invincible.

'The full unvarnished of one man’s heaven, and hell, on wheels' Independent

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William Fotheringham is the number-one bestselling author of Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike. He writes for the Guardian and Observer on cycling and rugby and is the critically lauded author of Fallen Angel, Roule Britannia, and Put Me Back on My Bike, which Vélo magazine called `the best cycling biography ever written’. A racing cyclist and launch editor of Procycling and Cycle Sport magazines, he has reported on over twenty Tours de France.

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Verlag
Yellow Jersey
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0224074512
ISBN 13 
9780224074513
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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