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A Life on the Pedals (Paperback)
Pedro Delgado, Julian Redondo; Translated by Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez
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R434
Discovery Miles 4 340
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Pedro Delgado's 13-year racing career spanned one of cycling's
golden decades. Riding against Hinault and Fignon in their prime in
the early 1980s, then later against Roche and LeMond, through to
mentoring Indurain in the 1990s, he took part in the Tour de France
and in one of the other grand tours in every year but his first and
last. His final haul of one Tour and two Vuelta victories perhaps
does not do justice to his talent, but then he was a rider whose
defeats were often every bit as memorable, and every bit as
spectacular, as his victories, and they too could be accompanied by
controversy. An innate climber, he learned how to time trial, but
it was that natural inclination to attack whenever the gradient
steepened, whether wisely or impulsively, that would move
spectators to tears - sometimes of pure joy; sometimes of bitter
disappointment. But in the end he was always capable of a smile,
because he knew better than most how to take those 'two imposters
of triumph and disaster' in his stride. More than a cycling
biography, this book gives a rare and often amusing insight into
the inner world of the professional peloton in that era - life in
the team hotel; the obsessions about diet and health; the
eccentricities and foibles of both the riders and their directors;
as well as the loyalties and feuds provoked by this, the hardest of
sports.
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