Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike - Hardcover

Fotheringham, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224074482 ISBN 13: 9780224074483

Verlag: Yellow Jersey, 2012

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Críticas:

"The Cantona or Muhammad Ali of cycling, this Belgian's story is amazing - and it's told by one of the greatest cycling reporters around... Top Notch" (Loaded)

"Remarkable and impressive.everything you want to know about Merckx and more" (Richard Abraham Cycling Weekly)

"The research is meticulous, the recapitulation of Merckx's races sweet reminiscences for those who witnessed them and things of wonder for those that did not" (Henry Sheen New Statesman)

"Does full justice to a unique athlete" (Independent on Sunday)

"Excellent" (Cycling Plus)

Reseña del editor:

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.Throughout his professional career Merckx amassed an astonishing 445 victories. To put that in perspective, Bradley Wiggins has fewer than forty.

Merckx was a machine. It wasn't just the number of victories; it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. In 1969 while already comfortably leading the Tour de France, Merckx hammered a further eight-and-a-half minutes out of his nearest rivals during an 85-mile solo break in the Pyrenees. 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.

For Britain's leading cycling writer, William Fotheringham, the burning question remains, why? What made Eddy Merckx so invincible? In Half Man, Half Bike, Fotheringham goes back to speak to those who were there at the time and those who knew Merckx best. The result is this extraordinary and definitive story of a man whose fear of failure would drive him to reach the highest pinnacles before ultimately destroying him.

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• Verlag: Yellow Jersey
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0224074482
• ISBN 13: 9780224074483
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320