Koblet Kubler Cyclings Forgotten Rivalry

Author : Gareth Cartman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781916019744
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Koblet + Kubler - Cycling's Forgotten Rivalry written by Gareth Cartman and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hugo Koblet won the 1950 edition of the Giro d'Italia, Ferdy Kübler's world was turned upside down. Hugo was handsome, Ferdy was not. Hugo was elegant, Ferdy was not. Hugo had all the girls. Ferdy did not. A rivalry that had been simmering for years exploded into life. Every time Hugo won a race, Ferdy was inspired to go one further, until the day Hugo stopped winning and his life slowly started to unravel. From Six-Day races around Europe to multiple Tours of France, Italy and Switzerland, the two K's dominated both road and track cycling at the start of the 1950s. Riders complained about chasing white crosses all day, but as decline set in, both men had to learn how to cope with a peloton that was passing them by. Koblet + Kübler is the story of two contrasting riders whose lives will forever be intertwined. How they won Grand Tours, World Championships and Classics, how rivalry turned to friendship, and how it all went tragically wrong. Author Gareth Cartman weaves imagined first-person narrative into this double biography of Switzerland's finest ever cyclists. Taking inspiration from his first book, We Rode All Day, the voices of Hugo Koblet and Ferdy Kubler are brought to life as the book charts their rise to prominence, their domination of the sport and their decline, resulting in tragedy for Hugo.

Author : Cartman Gareth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781916019706
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Rode All Day written by Cartman Gareth and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Rode All Day is the story of the 1919 Tour de France. As the first Tour since the first World War, it was intentionally brutal - 5,500km of racing across 15 stages. Only ten men made it to the finish line in Paris - and this is their story, told in their voices.

Author : Bert Wagendorp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781642860177
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ventoux written by Bert Wagendorp and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving and hilarious feel-good novel about male friendship, romance, intrigue, treachery and cycling.

Author : Jean Bobet
Publisher : Mousehold Press for Basque Children of '37 Association UK
ISBN 13 : 9781874739517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tomorrow, We Ride-- written by Jean Bobet and published by Mousehold Press for Basque Children of '37 Association UK. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the lives of the Bobet brothers - Louison, triple Tour de France winner and Jean who gave up an academic career to ride in the service of his brother. This story brings alive the romance of the great races and star riders of those post war days whose exploits lifted the public spirit after years of conflict and economic hardship.

Author : Daniel Coyle
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061746487
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lance Armstrong's War written by Daniel Coyle and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lance Armstrong's War is the extraordinary story of greatness pushed to its limits; a vivid, behind-the-scenes portrait of perhaps the most accomplished athlete of our time as he vies for a historic sixth straight victory in the toughest sporting event on the planet. It is the true story of a superlative sports figure fighting on all fronts—made newly vulnerable by age, fate, fame, doping allegations, a painful divorce, and an unprecedented army of challengers—while mastering the exceedingly difficult trick of being Lance Armstrong, a combination of world-class athlete, celebrity, regular guy, and, for many Americans, secular saint. With a new afterword by the author, featuring in-depth reporting on: Armstrong's unprecedented seventh consecutive Tour de France victory New blood doping allegations Armstrong's continuing personal and legal battles, and his retirement A fascinating journey through the little-known landscape of professional bike racing, Lance Armstrong's War provides a hugely insightful look into the often inspiring, always surprising core of a remarkable athlete and the world that shapes him.

Author : Ian Chester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Green Toothed Witch and the Yellow Canary written by Ian Chester and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twelve minutes past three on June 28th 1919, the leaders of the 'Big Four' Allied powers met in the Palace of Versailles in France, to sign a Treaty which would bring down the final curtain on the First World War. Ten hours later, at one o'clock in the morning, a new battle commenced as 67 riders met at the Parc de Princes in Paris, to set off on the second longest Tour de France in history.Exactly 100 years to the day, let's follow in their footsteps, witnessing every excruciating pedal turn of the 5,560km route. Let's struggle through the bloody battlefields of the Somme, land on the Normandy beaches and bumble along the Brittany Coast. Let's climb the perilous Pyrenees, get swept away by the Marseille Mistral and celebrate the 100th birthday of the 'maillot jaune' outside the Cafe de l'Ascenseur in Grenoble. We'll visit France's long-lost sisters of Alsace & Lorraine, before coming face to face with the mud and blood of the poppy fields of Flanders. Finally, we pedal on to the Party in the Parc in Gay Paris.This is the story of those brave men, newly returned from the Great War, cycling through the night, often in horrendous conditions, on fixed wheel bikes, all to win the now coveted yellow jersey.Travel with me and discover the story of the Green-Toothed Witch and The Yellow Canary.

Author : Noel Gordon Henderson
Publisher : Pelham Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental Cycle Racing written by Noel Gordon Henderson and published by Pelham Books. This book was released on 1970 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremy Whittle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471113027
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ventoux written by Jeremy Whittle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘They’re all scared. Everybody’s afraid’ – Eddy Merckx ‘Nothing compares to the Ventoux’ – Lance Armstrong 'Heart-stirring and jaw-dropping in equal measure' – Tim Moore 'A really excellent book' – Richard Williams The French call Ventoux ‘the killer mountain’ and in 1967 it claimed its most famous victim, as former world champion Tom Simpson died near the summit during that year’s Tour de France. The terrible ascent of Ventoux’s south side encapsulates both the brutality and beauty of this cruel sport, but also highlights cycling’s ongoing battle to distance itself from its demons. Yet it was the legendary and extreme climb of Mont Ventoux that first inspired award-winning author Jeremy Whittle’s love of cycling, so much so that he bought a house in its shadows. Ventoux is his memoir to the Giant of Provence in which he reveals the little-known history of the Ventoux, and tells the story of a monstrous climb that has driven riders to near-hysteria and also to wild extremes of doping. It has provided the spectacular backdrop to some of cycling’s most titanic contests, exposing the true character of those who take on the challenge. Through a series of revealing conversations with Lance Armstrong, Dave Brailsford, Alastair Campbell, Nicole Cooke, Tyler Hamilton, Eddy Merckx, Simpson’s daughter, Joanne, and many others, Whittle details the poignancy of bitter memories, flawed obsessions and ruthless ambition that have made the Ventoux so feared and so infamous. 'A terrific book' – Matt Dickinson 'An intense hit. A must read' – Ned Boulting ?'Highly recommend Jeremy Whittle's Ventoux - a fascinating and expert insight into the mountain and into the current state of pro racing' Peter Cossins

Author : Giles Belbin
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750995386
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tour de France Champions written by Giles Belbin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tour de France is a race like no other, so perhaps it's no surprise that it attracts racers like no other. The winner of the second Tour actually came fifth – but the four racers before him were disqualified for cheating. The 1932 champion credits his win with saving him from capture by the Nazis, as the soldiers recognised him from the podium. One of Britain's best cyclists of the modern era only got into European racing by forging an email. Tour de France Champions is a journey to the summit of cycling, looking at those who have taken on the roads and mountains of France to prevail above all others and win cycling's greatest prize. Giles Belbin presents the stories of all those who have claimed the original and greatest Grand Tour, the one race that still transcends the sport of cycling: the Tour de France.

Author : Peter Underwood
Publisher : Mousehold
ISBN 13 : 9781874739661
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dennis Horn - Racing for an English Rose written by Peter Underwood and published by Mousehold. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 20, Dennis Horn won his first English Rose the emblem of a national track champion. Throughout the 1930s he rapidly graduated from the rough and tumble of makeshift grass track racing at country fairs and gala sports days to assail the heights of British track cycling on the great urban cycling bastions of the time the hard-surfaced stadiums of London's Herne Hill and Manchester's Fallowfield and become the star of British track racing. Every year from 1931 to 1938 he was awarded the seasonlong Meredith Trophy to add to those legendary gold and silver cups. This book tells his story.