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Beautifully supported by Scott Mitchell's photography...Contains wit, intelligence, self-awareness and brilliant appreciation of fellow riders, a credit to Wiggins Informationen zum Autor Bradley Wiggins is the Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist who has achieved all there is to achieve in his sport. After his outspoken comments on drug taking in the Tour de France in 2007, he is now focusing on the Beijing Olympics in 2008. SCOTT MITCHELL is a freelance photographer based in Edinburgh. Since graduating in 1997 his work has been mainly focused around portraiture and location work. He has exhibited in the UK and internationally. Klappentext 'There is me trailing home 131st and, for all I know, I might be a top 50 rider if we all started on a level playing field . . . Bollocks to you all. You are a bunch of cheating bastards. At least I can look myself in the mirror.' Bradley Wiggins contemplates Floyd Landis testing positive for testosterone in the 2006 Tour de France. This 2010 account was an instant book published in the autumn following the Tour. Part day-by-day diary, it includes wider, deeper reflections on the history of the Tour, its famous figures and what they mean to him and is also illustrated with Scott Mitchell's atmospheric, black and white photography. The Tour was featured in Wiggins's 2008 autobiography, In Pursuit of Glory, but really only in the light of a scandal he was caught up in at the time. The emphasis of his previous memoir was very much on his childhood, his father and track cycling at the Olympics; here, Wiggins' new found love of road racing, and its pinnacle, the Tour de France, take centre stage, particularly the gruelling 2010 race, which although played out somewhat in the shadow of his high finish in 2009, was nevertheless an exemplary exercise in true grit and fighting spirit against the odds.Behind the scenes at the 2010 Tour de France with Britain's greatest hope, Bradley Wiggins. Zusammenfassung Behind the scenes at the 2010 Tour de France with Britain's greatest hope, Bradley Wiggins....
