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

Rendell, Matt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297847163 ISBN 13: 9780297847168

Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004

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An inside look at the 2003 Tour de France through the eyes of Lance Armstrong’s right-hand rider, the Colombian Victor Hugo Peña. 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, even when his muscles are thoroughly exhausted. This is the essence of cycling, and the key to Armstrong’s victories. Yet the domestique gets none of the glory. 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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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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• Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0297847163
• ISBN 13: 9780297847168
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182
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