Cycling's 50 Triumphs and Tragedies. Les Woodland
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Author: Les Woodland
Page Count: 332 pages
Published Date: 13 Oct 2015
Publisher: McGann Publishing LLC
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780985963644
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When more than 100 men or women go racing down a road, inches away from each other, in all weather, over all kinds of roads, the opportunity for a brilliant win or a terrible accident is always there. For more than a century bicycle racers have sought glory, but have often found only misery. There can be only one winner, and even that triumph can be mixed with terrible loss. Fausto Coppi, coached by a blind man, set the World Hour Record in Milan during the war while the city was being shattered by bombs. Tom Simpson was world champion in 1965, but by 1967, he was nearly a has-been. Desperate to win the Tour de France, he took an overdose of amphetamines and died by the side of the road of heart failure, probably caused by dehydration triggered by the drugs that were to help him win. Great joy and tragedy so close together. Join cycling's most accomplished writer, Les Woodland, as he explores the heroic, sometimes triumphant side of cycling, all the time reminding us that for every winner in cycling there have to be a hundred losers. Sometimes their tale is better or sadder than the winner's. We'll go on a journey round fifty sites of success and sorrow. Some of them, tragically, combined.
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