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Coppi

Author : Herbie Sykes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408181665
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Coppi written by Herbie Sykes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbie Sykes's Coppi is a beautiful, unique evocation of global cycling legend Fausto Coppi. Built around an extraordinary collection of hand-picked, never before seen images, the book also features testimony from those who knew him intimately. Fausto Coppi remains the most iconic cyclist in the history of the sport. For twenty years either side of the war his extravagant talent, allied to a unique charisma and human frailty, captivated sports fans across Europe. Moreover, he revolutionised the sport of bike racing itself, laying the foundations for the generations who would follow. Coppi was Il Campionissimo, his greatness so unequivocal that his celebrity transcended mere sport. As such both his professional and private lives were endlessly pawed over by his country's insatiable post-war media. In deserting his wife and daughter for a divorcée in 1954, he traumatised Catholic Italy. Thereafter his life became a soap opera from which he was unable to escape until his dramatic death in 1960. These images, many among them genuine masterpieces, were unearthed through hours of painstaking research. Allied to the personal truths of those closest to him, they reveal the man behind the Fausto Coppi myth. Put simply, the book strips away many of the half-truths and downright lies which have been grafted onto his legend over the decades. As such it's a very different kind of sports biography, and a must-have for all genuine cycling fans.

Fallen Angel

Author : William Fotheringham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0224074504
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Fallen Angel written by William Fotheringham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo champion of champions. The greatest cyclist of the immediate post-war years, he was the first man to win cycling s great double, the Tour

Fausto Coppi

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fausto Coppi written by and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Le Tour

Author : Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743449924
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Le Tour written by Geoffrey Wheatcroft and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henri Desgrange began a new bicycle road race in 1903, he saw it as little more than a temporary publicity stunt to promote his newspaper. The 60 cyclists who left Paris to ride through the night to Lyons that first July had little idea they were pioneers of the most famous of all bike races, which would reach its centenary as one of the greatest sporting events on earth. Geoffrey Wheatcroft's masterly history of the Tour de France's first hundred years is not just a hugely entertaining canter through some great Tour stories; nor is it merely a homage to the riders whose names—Coppi, Simpson, Mercx, Armstrong—are synonymous with the event's folly and glory. Focusing too on the race's role in French cultural life, it provides a unique and fascinating insight into Europe's 20th century.

European Heroes

Author : Pierre Lanfranchi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135238987
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book European Heroes written by Pierre Lanfranchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations.

Pedalare! Pedalare!

Author : John Foot
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408817551
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Pedalare! Pedalare! written by John Foot and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cycling was a sport so important in Italy that it marked a generation, sparked fears of civil war, changed the way Italian was spoken, led to legal reform and even prompted the Pope himself to praise a cyclist, by name, from his balcony in St Peters in Rome. It was a sport so popular that it created the geography of Italy in the minds of her citizens, and some have said that it was cycling, not political change, that united Italy. Pedalare, Pedalare! is the first complete history of Italian cycling to be published in English. The book moves chronologically from the first Giro d'Italia (Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France) in 1909 to the present day. The tragedies and triumphs of great riders such as Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali appear alongside stories of the support riders, snow-bound mountains and the first and only woman to ride the whole Giro. Cycling's relationship with Italian history, politics and culture is always up front, with reference to fascism, the cold war and the effect of two world wars. The sport is explored alongside changes in Italian society as a whole, from the poor peasants who took up cycling in the early, pioneering period, to the slick, professional sport of today. Scandals and controversy appear throughout the book as constant features of the connection between fans, journalists and cycling. Concluding with an examination of doping, which has helped to destroy what was at one time the most popular sport of all, Pedalare, Pedalare is an engrossing history of a national passion.

Annual Report

Author : New York State Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by New York State Museum and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Director of the Science Division

Author : New York State Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Director of the Science Division written by New York State Museum and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cumulated Index Medicus

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Cumulated Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nuclear Science Abstracts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Science Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rider

Author : Tim Krabbé
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635574196
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Rider written by Tim Krabbé and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant cult classic about biking, road racing, and the bicyclists who love their sport. Originally published in Holland in 1978, The Rider went on to sell more than 100,000 copies. Brilliantly conceived and written at a break-neck pace, it is a loving, imaginative, and, above all, passionate tribute to the art of bicycle road racing. Tim Krabbé begins this story at the very start of the Tour de Mont Aigoual, ready to race his rivals through the mountains of Central France. Over the course of the 150 pages that follows, Krabbé takes his bike 150 kilometers, and pulls his readers into the life of the sport he loves. The Rider is beloved as a bicycle odyssey, a literary masterpiece, and the ultimate book for bike lovers as well as the arm-chair sports enthusiast.

Froome

Author : Michael Vlismas
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 186842605X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Froome written by Michael Vlismas and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the day he joined a ramshackle Kenyan cycling club made up of orphans and street children, Chris Froome was destined for greatness. Froome: the Ride of his Life chronicles Froome's journey from the dusty mountain tracks outside Nairobi to the historic roads of the world's most famous bicycle race and his victory in the 2013 Tour de France. It's a journey that begins by learning to fix punctures in a Kenyan village under the mentorship of his long-time friend David Kinjah. It's the story of a boy who once sold avocados on the side of the road and lived with his mother in the servants' quarters at the back of a lavish homestead in Nairobi, but who had a free spirit and a drive to follow his dream. From his challenges and triumphs on the road to the tragedy of his mother's death, Froome emerges as a man apart but loyal and compassionate to those nearest to him as he sought to capture road cycling's ultimate prize - the Tour de France. From Africa to the Alps, this is the story of Africa's greatest cycling moment. This is the ride of Chris Froome's life.

Cycling and the British

Author : Neil Carter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472572106
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Cycling and the British written by Neil Carter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cycling is currently enjoying a boom in popularity. What are the reasons behind this phenomenon? How have perceptions and the popularity of cycling shifted? This book charts the historical development of cycling both as a leisure and sporting activity since the 19th century and explores the wider political and cultural context in which cycling in Britain emerged. In particular, it examines cycling's relationship with environmental politics and its place in popular culture. Neil Carter successfully traverses several historical sub-disciplines, including the history of transport, leisure, sport, medicine and politics, employing the analytical tools of class, gender, political culture, the role of the state and commercialism to demonstrate how British identity has shaped and been shaped by cycling. At a time when it has become part of debates over transport and health, Cycling and the British: A Modern History provides a timely and clear analysis of the changes and continuities in attitudes towards cycling.

Selling the Yellow Jersey

Author : Eric Reed
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620667X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Selling the Yellow Jersey written by Eric Reed and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yellow Livestrong wristbands were taken off across America in early 2013 when Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he had doped during the seven Tour de France races he won. But the foreign cycling world, which always viewed Armstrong with suspicion, had already moved on. The bellwether events of the year were Chris Froome’s victory in the Tour and the ousting of Pat McQuaid as director of the Union Cycliste Internationale. Even without Armstrong, the Tour will roll on— its gigantic entourage includes more than 200 racers, 450 journalists, 260 cameramen, 2,400 support vehicles carrying 4,500 people, and a seven-mile-long publicity caravan. It remains one of the most-watched annual sporting events on television and a global commercial juggernaut. In Selling the Yellow Jersey, Eric Reed examines the Tour’s development in France as well as the event’s global athletic, cultural, and commercial influences. The race is the crown jewel of French cycling, and at first the newspapers that owned the Tour were loath to open up their monopoly on coverage to state-owned television. However, the opportunity for huge payoffs prevailed, and France tapped into global networks of spectatorship, media, business, athletes, and exchanges of expertise and personnel. In the process, the Tour helped endow world cycling with a particularly French character, culture, and structure, while providing proof that globalization was not merely a form of Americanization, imposed on a victimized world. Selling the Yellow Jersey explores the behind-the-scenes growth of the Tour, while simultaneously chronicling France’s role as a dynamic force in the global arena.

Report

Author : New York State Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Report written by New York State Museum and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Account of Works on Geology, Mineralogy, and Palaeontology Published During the Year...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book An Account of Works on Geology, Mineralogy, and Palaeontology Published During the Year... written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: