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Master Jacques - The Enigma of Jacques Anquetil (Paperback)
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Master Jacques - The Enigma of Jacques Anquetil (Paperback)
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Of all the great cycling champions, Jacques Anquetil - the first
man to win the Tour de France five times - remains the most
mysterious. A prodigy, he burst upon the racing scene at the age of
18, defeating the world's best in the Grand Prix des Nations. From
that moment on, insists Pierre Chany, 'he no longer belonged to
himself'. Yet, perhaps more than any of cycling's legends, he
managed to protect his private life from public gaze. Outwardly
confident, and yet profoundly shy; rational and calculating, and
yet superstitious and haunted by fear of death, Anquetil was an
enigma. He defied the conventional picture of a racing cyclist:
elegant on or off the bicycle, winning seemed to come too
effortlessly; and he was too fond of the good life that his
successes enabled him to enjoy. The French public did not really
know what to make of him. 'His courage defied imagination, but
nobody noticed because his style was so perfect,' said his manager,
Raphael Geminiani. His domination of the 1961 Tour de France, which
he led from first day to last, earned him the title 'Master
Jacques', but was greeted by boos and whistles. It was only as he
neared retirement that Anquetil finally received the acclaim his
achievements deserved. In this, the first full-length English book
about Jacques Anquetil, Richard Yates explores the enigma of this
great French rider. Richard Yates is an English cycling historian
who has lived for many years in France; he is the author of several
books about French cycling.
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