Chasing the Rainbow: The story of road cycling's World Championships

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Aurum, 05.10.2017 - 304 Seiten

For the first time, Chasing the Rainbow tells the history of both the men’s and women’s road cycling’s World Championships.

Chasing the Rainbow recounts the famous routes, momentous victories and the characters, climbs, and of course, the riders behind the infamous pursuit for one of road cycling’s greatest prizes: the Rainbow Jersey.
Giles Belbin has conducted exclusive interviews with a whole host of Champions from the Tour’s illustrious past, including:  Oscar Frieire; Marianne Vos; Marcel Kint; Nicole Cooke; Yvonne Reynders; Keetie Van Oosten-Hage; Barry Hoban; Felice Gimondi; Mandy Jones; Stephen Roche; Catharine Marsal and Cadel Evans.

 

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Inhalt

Foreword
Chapter Four
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Twenty
Oscar Freire 1999 2001 2004
Nicole Cooke 2008
Marianne Vos 2006 2012 2013
Acknowledgements
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

1min Alfredo Binda Altig amateur Anquetil attacked Belgian Belgium Bettini bike Binda Bobet breakaway Britain career Catherine Marsal Championnats du Monde Chany circuit claimed climb Coppi course crossed the line Cycling Weekly cycling’s cyclists Eddy Merckx Fabuleuse Histoire Fausto Coppi Felice Gimondi Finishers France France’s Freire front Germany’s Gimondi Girardengo Giro Histoire des Classiques Host Indurain Italian Italy Italy’s Jeannie Longo kilometres kilometres to go Kint knew La Stampa later LeMond Liège-Bastogne-Liège Looy Maertens Marianne Vos Marsal metres to go Milan-Sanremo Monde Editions Odil Netherlands Nicole Cooke Olympic Oosten-Hage Paris-Roubaix peloton podium Poulidor professional rainbow jersey riders riding Rik Van Steenbergen road race road world rode s.t. Km s.t. Third Sean season Second September Simpson Spain sport sprint sprinter Stampa Starters Switzerland teammate Valkenburg Vuelta wanted wheel winner women’s race world champion world championships world title Yvonne Reynders

Autoren-Profil (2017)

GILES BELBIN is a cycling historian. His work has been published in Procyling, Australia's Ride Cycling Review, the Independent and Guardian online. Giles reported on all of the cycling events at London 2012 for the Olympic News Service. His first cycling book Mountain Kings was published in 2013. Giles lives in the UK. 

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TitelChasing the Rainbow: The story of road cycling's World Championships
Autor/inGiles Belbin
Mitwirkende PersonenBrian Cookson
VerlagAurum, 2017
ISBN1781316325, 9781781316320
Länge304 Seiten
  
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