How the Race Was Won
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How the Race Was Won

Cycling's Top Minds Reveal the Road to Victory

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

How the Race Was Won

Cycling's Top Minds Reveal the Road to Victory

About this book

Great cyclists are born, but winning cyclists are made by the brains of their managers. The craft of racing requires a non-stop obsession with detail: watching rivals, judging the strength of a break, knowing the course, and picking the right moment to seize a fleeting opportunity and turn it into a big win.How the Race Was Won investigates the fine details of bicycle racing through extensive interviews with the sport's brightest minds. Author Peter Cossins has interrogated the riders, managers, and directors who have shaped the sport, and reveals how they learned to navigate the invisible undercurrent that sweeps their riders to the finish line.From the moment when George Pilkington Mills was paced to victory by a wily teammate in the 1891 edition of Bordeaux–Paris to Chris Froome's modern emphasis on marginal gains, How the Race Was Won embraces the full sweep of cycling history, making stops along the way to analyze how tactics first evolved and how today's winning minds continue to build on what came before.Behind every great cyclist is a race wizard reading the race, watching the rivals, outwitting the competition, and anticipating the one perfect moment to launch a rider to victory. How the Race Was Won is a thrilling and unprecedented look at how victory is won, how rivals are vanquished, and how pure speed can only prevail when supported by deep brainpower.

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Information

Publisher
VeloPress
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781934030905
eBook ISBN
9781948006071

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Prologue
  7. 1. What Are Tactics?
  8. 2. The Development of Tactics
  9. 3. The Making of Modern Tactics
  10. 4. Inside the Washing Machine—Riding in the Peloton
  11. 5. Dirty Dealing
  12. 6. How to Race in the Wind
  13. 7. How to Lead Out and Win a Sprint
  14. 8. From Control to Chaos—Sprinting’s New Order
  15. 9. How to Bluff Your Rivals
  16. 10. Surviving with the Laughing Group—Life in the Gruppetto
  17. 11. How to Win in the Mountains
  18. 12. Is Technology Killing Tactics?
  19. 13. Going Downhill Fast
  20. 14. How to Win a Time Trial
  21. 15. The Art of the Breakaway
  22. 16. How to Win a Classic
  23. 17. Conducting the Chaos—Directeurs Sportifs and Road Captains
  24. 18. A Tactical Showcase—The Rise of Women’s Cycling
  25. 19. Simple, but Extremely Complex
  26. Acknowledgments
  27. Bibliography
  28. About the Author