A Significant Other: Riding The Centenary Tour De France With Lance Armstrong - Couverture souple

Rendell, Matt

 
9780753818749: A Significant Other: Riding The Centenary Tour De France With Lance Armstrong
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0753818744 ISBN 13 : 9780753818749
Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005

Synopsis

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An inside look at the 2003 Tour de France through the eyes of Lance Armstrong's right-hand rider, Victor Hugo Peña--who also helped Armstrong ride to his unprecedented sixth victory in 2004. Peña served as Armstrong's domestique, a crucial yet unsung position unique to cycling. The domestique handles a variety of tasks, but his most important is to ride ahead of the team leader, creating a wind tunnel that makes it aerodynamically easier for the "star" to continue pedaling. This is the essence of cycling, and the key to Armstrong's victories. Now, in revealing the true role of the domestique for the first time, Matt Rendell gives a more vivid and insightful portrayal of professional cycling than ever before.

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À propos de l?auteur

MATT RENDELL survived Hodgkin's Disease and lecturing at British and Latvian universities before entering TV and print journalism. His first book Kings of the Mountains: How Colombia's Cycling Heroes Changed their Nation's History (Aurum Press 2002) was described in The Times as 'meticulous, elegant and sensitive.' His Channel 4 documentary about sport in Colombia and Ecuador, also called Kings of the Mountains, was described in The Observer as 'a gem, telling us more about the essence of sport in under an hour than a season's worth of Premiership matches.' He has written for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, including British coverage of the Tour de France, and he edited The Tour de France Centennial 1903-2003 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003). The National Sporting Club named Matt Rendell 'Best New Sports Writer 2003'.

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Éditeur
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0753818744
ISBN 13 
9780753818749
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
182
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004
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