Rough Ride: Behind the Wheel with a Pro Cyclist (Yellow Jersey Cycling Classics) - Softcover

Kimmage, Paul

 
9780224080170: Rough Ride: Behind the Wheel with a Pro Cyclist (Yellow Jersey Cycling Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0224080172 ISBN 13: 9780224080170
Verlag: Yellow Jersey, 2007

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An eye-opening expose of and a heart-breaking lament for professional cycling

Paul Kimmage's boyhood dreams were of cycling glory: wearing the yellow jersey, cycling the Tour de France, becoming a national hero. He knew it wouldn't come easy, but he was prepared to put in the graft. The dedication paid off – he finished sixth in the World Championships as an amateur and in 1986, he turned professional.

He soon discovered it wasn't about courage, training hours or how much you wanted to win. It was about gruelling defeats, total exhaustion, and drugs - drugs that would allow you to finish the race and start another day.

Kimmage ultimately left the sport to write this book – profoundly honest and ground-breaking, Rough Ride broke the silence surrounding the issue of drugs in sport, and documents one man’s love for, and struggle with, the complex world of professional cycling.

‘A must read for any cyclist’ Cyclist
WINNER OF WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR

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Since writing Rough Ride, Paul Kimmage has gone on to become one of the UK and Ireland's most respected sports journalists. Currently chief interviewer for the Sunday Times' sports section, he is also the author of Andy Townsend's autobiography, and of the highly acclaimed Full Time: The Secret Life of Tony Cascarino.

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Winner of the 1990 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
A former rider in the Tour de France tells what life is really like in the world of professional cycling. This new edition is fully updated with two new chapters on the escalation of the use of drugs in sports.

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Verlag
Yellow Jersey
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0224080172
ISBN 13 
9780224080170
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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