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A path through cycling-specific information: slang, cycling stars, equipment, and nicknames The essential A-to-Z compendium of everything there is to know about the bicycle, this sports reference is full of amazing facts and enthralling anecdotes. Numerous entries have been updated for this paperback edition. A world of death-defying feats and obscure mechanical oddities, the nature of cycling is both heroic and geeky, and the perils of vicious dogs...
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Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to soccer: simply the best there has ever been. Merckx amassed an astonishing 445 victories. Lance Armstrong, by comparison, managed fewer than 100. Merckx did not just beat his opponents; he crushed them. However, 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,...
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La biografía del gran campeón bretón Bernard Hinault, escrita por el escritor William Fotheringham, autor, entre otros, de los libros Merckx. Mitad hombre, mitad máquina y La pasión de Fausto Coppi.
El ciclista francés es, probablemente, el último gran campeón de la vieja escuela. Su palmarés luce cinco Tours de Francia y un hito único: fue el primer ciclista que con dos victorias en la Vuelta y otras tres en el Giro venció en más de...
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¿Cómo llega alguien a ser el más grande de todos los tiempos? Eddy Merckx es en ciclismo lo que Muhammad Ali en boxeo o Pelé en fútbol: simplemente, el mejor que haya existido.
Merckx era una máquina. No solo por el número de victorias (445), su leyenda se forjó por su despiadado dominio. No se limitaba a vencer a sus contrincantes, los aplastaba. Pero sus triunfos solo narran la mitad de una historia que incluye graves lesiones, problemas...
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Bernard Hinault is one of the greatest cyclists of all time. He is a five-time winner of the Tour de France and the only man to have won each of the Grand Tours on more than one occasion. In The Badger, bestselling author William Fotheringham finally gets to the bottom of this fascinating character and explores the reasons why France, the nation that considers itself cycling's home, has found it so hard to produce a successor. Hinault was the last...
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