Peter Joffre Nye Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing 9781496219312

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Автор: Peter Joffre Nye
Название: Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing
ISBN: 9781496219312
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История спорта

Велоспорт

ISBN-10: 1496219317
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 568
Вес: 0.95 кг.
Дата издания: 01.05.2020
Язык: English
Издание: 2 new edition
Иллюстрации: 73 photographs, 2 illustrations, index
Размер: 231 x 165 x 48
Ключевые слова: Cycling,History of sport, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cycling,SPORTS & RECREATION / History
Подзаголовок: The history of american bicycle racing
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Bike racers were America’s media darlings less than a century ago—dashing, eccentric, and very rich daredevils. Until the 1920s bike races drew larger crowds than all other American sports events, including Major League Baseball games. Prize-winning racer and journalist Peter Joffre Nye vividly re-creates this period of sports history, forgotten until now, in Hearts of Lions, a true story of courage, daring, and occasional lunacy.

Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of Hearts of Lions is based on interviews with more than one thousand cyclists whose racing careers span from 1908 through the 2016 Rio Olympics, along with interviews with trainers and family members. Included are stories about Joseph Magnani, the lone American from southern Illinois who rode on the dusty roads of Europe in road racing’s golden era of the 1930s and 1940s; Lance Armstrong, whose rise in the mid-1990s was eclipsed in the doping era that still casts a long shadow over the sport; Kristin Armstrong, a three-time Olympic gold medalist who set new standards for women in cycling; and Evelyn “Evie” Stevens, who chucked a Wall Street career in her mid-twenties to compete in two Olympics and win several world championship gold medals.

Hearts of Lions is a colorful, exciting, classic work on the art of bicycle racing over 140 years against a backdrop of social, political, and technical changes.

Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing, Peter Joffre Nye