Put Me Back On My Bike

Author:

By William Fotheringham

Format:

Paperback (Paperback)

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Price:

£7.99

Tagged with:

Cycling, Biography, Tommy Simpson, Tour de France, British Cycling

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Further Details

• Published: 5th Jun 2003
• ISBN: 0224061879
• Pages: 222

From Word of Sport:

A pioneering biography of Tom Simpson, Olympian and first British yellow jersey winner. Accused of race fixing, Simpson aroused great controversy but also won awe and admiration for the obsessive will to win that finally cost him his life.This is a fascinating, exhaustive account of a tough man's suicidal journey.

From the Publisher:

Tom Simpson was an Olympic medallist, world champion and the first Briton to wear the fabled yellow jersey of the Tour de France. He died a tragic early death on the barren moonscape of the Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour. Almost 35 years on, hundreds of fans still make the pilgrimage to the windswept memorial which marks the spot where he died. A man of contradictions, Simpson was one of the first cyclists to admit to using banned drugs, and was accused of fixing races, yet the dapper 'Major Tom' inspired awe and affection for the obsessive will to win which was ultimately to cost him his life. Put me Back on my Bike revisits the places and people associated with Simpson to produce the definitive story of Britain's greatest ever cyclist.