Tino Tabak: Dreams And Demons Of A New Zealand Cycling Legend

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'I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at seventy-five miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire: the perfect contradiction to my once an

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Australia's love affair with motorcycle racing and its fearless heroes was meant to be. Two things have made it so enticing. The first is the inherent love of freedom, speed and adrenalin - that wild feeling of the wind whipping your face as you fight to take the machine as fast as it can go. The second is the ingrained Australian desire to test ourselves against the rest of the world - to be the

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The Anna Meares Story is the story of the grit and determination of a young woman who overcame major life-threatening trauma to realise what she had barely been able to dream about. Olympic track cyclist Anna experienced a career-stopping heavy fall during a time trial at the World Cup in Los Angeles in January 2008, less than eight months out from the Beijing Olympic Games. Falling on the hard, w

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The Tour de France is probably the greatest test of sporting endurance in the world. This book plots the evolution of this greatest of cycling endurance races. For three weeks every July, around 200 cyclists put themselves through the most punishing of schedules, riding approximately 3,500km, including mountain climbs of around 3000m. This book traces the history of the race from the 1903 Tour, cr