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Chasing the Rainbow: A History of World Championship Cycling

Giles Belbin

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Description:With cycling booming all around the world and interest in the World Championships at unprecedented levels, Chasing the Rainbow is the first book to document the history of both the men's and women's championships, telling the untold stories of one of cycling's greatest prizes. The professional World Championships started in 1927, when Italian great Alfredo Binda took the inaugural title. In 1958 the first women's championship was held, won by Elsy Jacobs of Luxembourg. In 2015 Lizzie Armitstead became just the sixth Briton to stand on top of the podium, earning herself a BBC sports personality of the year nomination in doing so. Illustrated with archive photography, the book will feature chapters based around each decade of the championship's history, focusing on the major stories and details and including exclusive rider interviews with previous winners such as Greg le Mond, Mark Cavendish, Lizzie Armitstead and Stephen Roche who recount memories of their own winning performances and talk about what the jersey means to them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chasing the Rainbow: A History of World Championship Cycling. To get started finding Chasing the Rainbow: A History of World Championship Cycling, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 304

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Aurum Press

Release: 2017

ISBN: 1781316317

Description: With cycling booming all around the world and interest in the World Championships at unprecedented levels, Chasing the Rainbow is the first book to document the history of both the men's and women's championships, telling the untold stories of one of cycling's greatest prizes. The professional World Championships started in 1927, when Italian great Alfredo Binda took the inaugural title. In 1958 the first women's championship was held, won by Elsy Jacobs of Luxembourg. In 2015 Lizzie Armitstead became just the sixth Briton to stand on top of the podium, earning herself a BBC sports personality of the year nomination in doing so. Illustrated with archive photography, the book will feature chapters based around each decade of the championship's history, focusing on the major stories and details and including exclusive rider interviews with previous winners such as Greg le Mond, Mark Cavendish, Lizzie Armitstead and Stephen Roche who recount memories of their own winning performances and talk about what the jersey means to them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chasing the Rainbow: A History of World Championship Cycling. To get started finding Chasing the Rainbow: A History of World Championship Cycling, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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