Chasing the Rainbow
The story of road cycling's World Championships
Published on 16. August 2017
304 pages
978-1-78131-632-0 (ISBN)
Description
For the first time, Chasing the Rainbow tells the history of both the men's and women's road cycling's World Championships.
Chasing the Rainbow recounts the famous routes, momentous victories and the characters, climbs, and of course, the riders behind the infamous pursuit for one of road cycling's greatest prizes: the Rainbow Jersey.
Giles Belbin has conducted exclusive interviews with a whole host of Champions from the Tour's illustrious past, including: Oscar Frieire; Marianne Vos; Marcel Kint; Nicole Cooke; Yvonne Reynders; Keetie Van Oosten-Hage; Barry Hoban; Felice Gimondi; Mandy Jones; Stephen Roche; Catharine Marsal and Cadel Evans.
Chasing the Rainbow recounts the famous routes, momentous victories and the characters, climbs, and of course, the riders behind the infamous pursuit for one of road cycling's greatest prizes: the Rainbow Jersey.
Giles Belbin has conducted exclusive interviews with a whole host of Champions from the Tour's illustrious past, including: Oscar Frieire; Marianne Vos; Marcel Kint; Nicole Cooke; Yvonne Reynders; Keetie Van Oosten-Hage; Barry Hoban; Felice Gimondi; Mandy Jones; Stephen Roche; Catharine Marsal and Cadel Evans.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78131-632-0 (9781781316320)
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08/2017
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Persons
GILES BELBIN is a cycling historian. His work has been published in Procyling, Australia's Ride Cycling Review, the Independent and Guardian online. Giles reported on all of the cycling events at London 2012 for the Olympic News Service. His first cycling book Mountain Kings was published in 2013. Giles lives in the UK.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Author's note
- Chapter One: Introducing the Worlds: Doha 2016
- Chapter Two: It's an Italian affair
- Chapter Three: The age of the powerhouse nations
- Chapter Four: Marcel Kint (1938)
- Chapter Five: The Worlds return
- Chapter Six: Maman: je suis champion du monde
- Chapter Seven: A new era begins
- Chapter Eight: Yvonne Reynders (1959, 1961, 1963, 1966)
- Chapter Nine: A very Belgian controversy
- Chapter Ten: Mr Tom and the Yorkshire hausfrau
- Chapter Eleven: Barry Hoban
- Chapter Twelve: The death of a champion
- Chapter Thirteen: Felice Gimondi (1973)
- Chapter Fourteen: Keetie van Oosten-Hage (1968, 1976)
- Chapter Fifteen: Merckx crowns a triple
- Chapter Sixteen: The LeMond and Longo years
- Chapter Seventeen: Mandy Jones (1982)
- Chapter Eighteen: Stephen Roche (1987)
- Chapter Nineteen: Spain's wait finally ends
- Chapter Twenty: Catherine Marsal (1990)
- Chapter Twenty-One: The Lion King roars
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Oscar Freire (1999, 2001, 2004)
- Chapter Twenty-Three: The Rainbow Stripes and the Olympic Rings
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Nicole Cooke (2008)
- Chapter Twenty-Five: Cadel Evans (2009)
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Racing against the clock
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Marianne Vos (2006, 2012, 2013)
- Results and Statistics
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Endnotes
- Copyright
