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A Clean Break: My Story

Autoren: Christophe Bassons, Benoît Hopquin
Übersetzer: Peter Cossins

Tour de France

Autoren: Jan Ullrich, Erik Zabel, Jürgen Löhle

Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike

Autor: William Fotheringham

The Race to Truth: Blowing the whistle on Lance Armstrong and cycling's doping culture

Emma O'Reilly

Mastermind: How Dave Brailsford Reinvented the Wheel: Sport Shorts

Richard Moore

Dave Brailsford has spearheaded the track cycling revolution in Britain, helping turn the nation into a superpower. He is also head of Team Sky and oversaw Bradley Wiggins' victory at the 2012 Tour de France. But who is the man behind the mask?

This is a portrait of one of the most enigmatic presences in world sport; an exploration of his background, a unique insight into the formation of his methodology and an analysis of how he has forged a new path in a sport riven with controversy.

Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists

Michael Hutchinson

For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right - it's the doing everything right that's hard. And that's what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchinson.

With his usual deadpan delivery and an awareness that it's all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster - training, nutrition, the right psychology - and explains how they work and how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower and why they do so and how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar lifestyle corners.

Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do; about what the riders, their coaches, and the boffins get up to behind the scenes; and about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.

Lance Armstrong: Tour De Force

Dan Coyle

Coyle takes us from the cyclist's turbulent youth in Texas through his many achievements in the cycling field (notably his near loss in the 2003 tour), and his massive struggles against a series of disasters that would have floored most of us: his difficult divorce and subsequent separation from his children and, finally, the terrifying revelation of his cancer. The section on the various solutions that Armstrong tried (including new age healers and radical Italian sports doctors) makes for particularly fascinating reading: as Armstrong realised that his solutions lay elsewhere, there is a genuinely inspirational note here.

Equally fascinating are the descriptions of his obsessive fans, the mind games he was forced to play (both with his opponents and corporate heavyweights), and, of course, his much-publicised relationship with rock star Sheryl Crow. The climax, his victory in the 2004 Tour de France, rounds out one of the best sport biographies in years. -< I> Barry Forshaw

Man on the Run: The Life And Death of Marco Pantani

Manuela Ronchi, Gianfranco Josti

The Man Who Cycled the Americas

Mark Beaumont

The Racer: The Inside Story of Life on the Road

David Millar

Greg LeMond: Yellow Jersey Racer

Guy Andrews

Shadows on the Road: Life at the Heart of the Peloton, from US Postal to Team Sky

Michael Barry

Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong

Juliet Macur

The Program: Seven Deadly Sins - My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong (English Edition)

Autor: David Walsh

I'm a Cyclist - Let me out of here! (English Edition)

Autor: Dave Barter

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels (English Edition)

Autor: Hannah Ross