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Hearts of Lions - The History of American Bicycle Racing (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Hearts of Lions - The History of American Bicycle Racing (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Bike racers were America's media darlings less than a century
ago-dashing, eccentric, and very rich daredevils. Until the 1920s
bike races drew larger crowds than all other American sports
events, including Major League Baseball games. Prize-winning racer
and journalist Peter Joffre Nye vividly re-creates this period of
sports history, forgotten until now, in Hearts of Lions, a true
story of courage, daring, and occasional lunacy. Revised, updated,
and expanded, this second edition of Hearts of Lions is based on
interviews with more than one thousand cyclists whose racing
careers span from 1908 through the 2016 Rio Olympics, along with
interviews with trainers and family members. Included are stories
about Joseph Magnani, the lone American from southern Illinois who
rode on the dusty roads of Europe in road racing's golden era of
the 1930s and 1940s; Lance Armstrong, whose rise in the mid-1990s
was eclipsed in the doping era that still casts a long shadow over
the sport; Kristin Armstrong, a three-time Olympic gold medalist
who set new standards for women in cycling; and Evelyn "Evie"
Stevens, who chucked a Wall Street career in her mid-twenties to
compete in two Olympics and win several world championship gold
medals. Hearts of Lions is a colorful, exciting, classic work on
the art of bicycle racing over 140 years against a backdrop of
social, political, and technical changes.
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