A Significant Other: Riding the Centenary tour de France with Lance Armstrong - Softcover

Rendell, Matt

 
9780753818749: A Significant Other: Riding the Centenary tour de France with Lance Armstrong
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753818744 ISBN 13: 9780753818749
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005

Synopsis

Lance Armstrong's place in the cycling history books is assured. Winner of the Tour de France a record-breaking six times, he is regarded as one of the greatest individual talents the sport has ever seen. Perhaps his most compelling victory was in 2003 when he won the coveted Centenary race. However, without the team of brilliant athletes assembled to support him - the domestiques - victory in the Tour would have been impossible.

Not only do these superbly trained athletes ride alongside the team leader, supplying water and equipment, but they also create a moving stream of energy that is vital for competitive success. In 2003, Lance Armstrong's domestique, Victor Hugo Peña, actually took over the yellow jersey and stepped into history. A Significant Other is the story of that race but also of these unsung heros of the sport.

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0753818744
ISBN 13 
9780753818749
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192

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