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"Egan Bernal y los hijos de la cordillera es un amplio recuento del desarrollo del ciclismo profesional en Colombia. Guy Roger, reportero desde hace más de treinta años en el diario deportivo francés L'Équipe, ha viajado a nuestro país, donde la tragedia y las dificultades se entrelazan con...

This telling of the 2024 Tour de France is an addition to our two-volume The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World, and five supplements.

For a Yellow Jersey narrates the many remarkable lives of the women's Tour de France. A race which has, in its various incarnations, acted as a microcosm of the women's bike racing scene as a whole. Like the careers of many of its participants, the race itself represents an inspiring story of...

Burnt out and questioning life Naomi was ready for a change. Unsure of which option to take, she would end up cycling the world with a man she’d met just three times in the adventure of a lifetime. Riding through tiger reserves, cycling Cairo to Capetown and crossing the 5,416m high Thorong-la pass in Nepal this book is full of tales of adventure. With early school reports noting Naomi would be better at sport if she at least turned up, this is not an athlete’s journey but the story of an ordinary person with a great opportunity and a can-do attitude.

Dai suoi primi giorni di gare attraverso la campagna italiana, attraverso il periodo difficile dell'incidente ciclistico e il successivo riscatto, fino alla sua trasformazione di carriera nel management generale e nella leadership aziendale, la storia di Roberto risuona con temi universali di perseveranza e crescita. Nel suo cuore, questo memoir celebra la famiglia, l'integrità e il coraggio di reinventarsi.

A history and celebration of women's cycling—beginning with its origins as a political statement, beloved pastime, and early feminist act—that shares the stories of notable cyclists and groups around the world More than a century after they first entered the mainstream, bicycles and the...

Bloomsbury presents New Black Cyclones: Racism, Representation and Revolutions of Power in Cycling by Marlon Lee Moncrieffe, read by Joshua Riley How has racism, anti-racism and the representation of cycling changed since the Black Lives Matter movement? What could be the potential force of...

Autobiografía oficial de Peter Sagan. Tapa dura y edición de lujo. ''Si en la línea de salida de una carrera hay cien ciclistas, cuando termine te podrán contar cien historias diferentes. La mía va de lo que se siente al vestir el maillot arcoíris tres años seguidos. Es algo que solo...

La biografía más completa de Lance Armstrong, escrita por Juliet Macur, periodista del New York Times, una de las periodistas que más acceso tuvo al ciclista norteamericano, antes y después de su confesión. El relato definitivo del espectacular ascenso y caída de Lance Armstrong.En junio...

In this story of perseverance and the strength of the human spirit, Robert Woods recounts the painful years of his childhood, when he watched his parents recover from a challenging divorce while suffering his own horrendous abuse in secret. By opening up about his abuse and the many years of holding on to hatred and resentment that followed, Robert illustrates that no matter the circumstances, there is always hope.

Bloomsbury presents The Way of the Waves, written and read by Martin Dorey 'A wonderfully entertaining and deeply inspirational adventure by one of life's great enthusiasts' – Tim Moore, travel writer A slow, low-carbon journey by bike through Europe’s western fringes. Part personal...

Una dura carrera. Por los entresijos del ciclismo, a rueda de un ciclista profesional, es uno de los mejores libros nunca escritos sobre la vida de un ciclista profesional. Por primera vez, la obra de Paul Kimmage en castellano. Un clásico de 1990 nunca traducido al castellano hasta ahora, que...