The Monuments 2nd edition - The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Paperback)

An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary "classic" races in world cycling. The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called 'Monuments', the five legendary races that are the sport's equivalent of golf's majors or the grand slams in tennis. Milan-Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris -Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Tour of Lombardy date back more than a century, and each of them is an anomaly in modern-day sport, the cycling equivalent of the Monaco Grand Prix. Time has changed them to a degree, but they remain as brutally testing as they ever have been. They provide the sport's outstanding one-day performers with a chance to measure themselves against each other and their predecessors in the most challenging tests in world cycling. From the bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of the Paris-Roubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the Tour of Flanders, each race is as unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme exhaustion to win them and enter their epic history. Over the course of a century, only Rik Van Looy, Eddy Merckx and Roger De Vlaeminck have won all five races. Yet victory in a single edition of a Monument guarantees a rider lasting fame. For some, that one victory has even more cachet than success in a grand tour. Each of the Monuments has a fascinating history, featuring tales of the finest and largest characters in the sport. In this revised and updated new edition of The Monuments Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these extraordinary races and the riders they have immortalised.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Sport
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2023
Authors:	Peter Cossins
Dimensions:	234 x 153mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-1-399-40786-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading > Cycling Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	1-399-40786-4
Barcode:	9781399407861

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