LIBROS DEL AUTOR: les woodland

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  • Dirty Feet
    Les Woodland
    Dirty Feet is a fresh look at the now more than 100-year-old Tour de France. Les Woodland goes back to the blue-collar origins of the race when the father of the Tour, Henri Desgrange, was so bothered by the hygiene of his tough, beloved racers that at the end of each stage he would publish the names of the riders who did not wash after a day of racing on France’s mostly dirt a...
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    18,78 €

  • Cycling’s World Championships
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    Champion of the World! For a year the World Cycling Champion gets to wear a special white jersey with rainbow stripes. And then, for the rest of his career, he can wear a jersey with rainbow cuffs and collar. Unlike the Tour de France's Yellow Jersey, which can only be worn while leading the race, the rainbow is earned for life.For more than a century organized cycling has ...
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  • Cycling’s 50 Triumphs and Tragedies
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    When more than 100 men or women go racing down a road, inches away from each other, in all weather, over all kinds of roads, the opportunity for a brilliant win or a terrible accident is always there.For more than a century bicycle racers have sought glory, but have often found only misery. There can be only one winner, and even that triumph can be mixed with terrible loss. Fau...
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  • Tour de France
    Les Woodland
    Tour de France: The Inside StoryThe Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it ¬began as a humble promotional gimmick for a floundering newspaper. More than 100 years later the Tour still captivates the world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men looking for some way to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful e...
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  • Tour of Flanders
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    The Tour of Flanders is Belgium’s most brutal day in the saddle. The bike-crazed Flemish don’t just send riders over cobblestone roads. Nor are they content to break the racers’ legs with nearly 20 steep hills. No, the worst of all cycling worlds meet in Flanders with narrow, vertical roads paved with slippery, dangerous cobbles. The hills are so steep they are called 'muurs', ...
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  • Paris-Roubaix, The Inside Story
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    The Paris-Roubaix bicycle race, nicknamed 'The Hell of the North,' is famous for sending riders over brutal cobblestone roads. Only the strong, brave and lucky survive the hours of bone-shaking racing without suffering some mishap or catastrophe. It is so difficult no one wins it by accident, and winning Paris-Roubaix automatically puts a rider among the immortals of the sport....
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  • The Olympics’ 50 Craziest Stories
    Les Woodland
    Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) is the motto of the International Olympic Committee. After reading Les Woodland’s 'The Olympics’ 50 Craziest Stories' the reader might wonder if the motto should be Sillier, Loonier, Crazier. There is the gentle rower who was winning his race when he stopped his scull to avoid scattering a mother duck and her ducklings-we’ll le...
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    18,94 €

  • Cycling Heroes
    Les Woodland
    Les Woodland climbed aboard his old Carlton bike to take a nostalgia trip across Belgium and Holland to visit some of cycling’s greatest riders. 'Cycling Heroes: The Golden Years' tells the story of that journey he took in the early 1990s and the time he spent with some of the finest riders from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Rik van Steenbergen, Rik van Looy, Jan Janssen, Wim van ...
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    18,91 €

  • Cycling’s 50 Craziest Stories
    Les Woodland
    Professional cycling has been around for more than 100 years, more than enough time for nearly anything imaginable to have happened. Whether it’s the Tour de France racer who thought the worst thing that could happen to him was being forced to wear the Yellow Jersey, or the communist team director who insisted, on a whim, that a rider have a toe amputated or the fit of jealousy...
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    18,94 €