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Informationen zum Autor William Fotheringham began writing about bike racing in 1988 and was covering the Tour de France within two years, one of maybe half a dozen British journalists on the race. He spent much of the 1990s writing for Cycling Weekly and Cycle Sport , combining that with work for the Guardian , who talked him into covering the Tour for them in 1994. On the sports desk in the Guardian he covered rugby as well as cycling, and reported on the World Cup in 2003. His first full-length book, Put Me Back on My Bike , was published in 2002. His most recent book is Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike. Klappentext Few British schoolchildren of the seventies can have been as obsessed with the Tour de France as William Fotheringham, who smuggled copies of Miroir du Cyclisme into lessons to read inside his books. Since joining the Guardian in 1989, William Fotheringham has been at the forefront of British cycling journalism. In William Fotheringham's Racing Hard , the UK's leading cycling journalist looks back at a tumultuous time in the history of the sport. Zusammenfassung Few British schoolchildren of the seventies can have been as obsessed with the Tour de France as William Fotheringham! who smuggled copies of Miroir du Cyclisme into lessons to read inside his books. Since joining the Guardian in 1989! William Fotheringham has been at the forefront of British cycling journalism.
