The Man and His Bike
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…The helicopter is hanging above our heads. A woman with a child
waves up to the family watching at home. Motorcycles tear past,
sirens wailing. And here they come, the riders. Like a vast
chameleon the peloton continually changes shape and colour. Four
hundred tyres sing to us. Music for a Sunday afternoon.Here they
come. Here they are. There they go. It’s all over, consigned to the
past once more. We can still see the mud-spattered backside of a
straggler, sitting crooked on his bike after a fall. The skin of
his elbow has been grazed raw, the dirt of the Tour ground into the
wound. But he must go on. The Tour waits for no man…Wilfried de
Jong is a star of Dutch sports writing and broadcasting. In this
award-winning collection of cycling tales, his comic, melancholic,
existential charm unlocks a sport that involves so much pain,
punishment, isolation and a high probability of failure. Whether he
is describing being ejected from Paris-Roubaix, a terminal incident
with a bird while out riding, painting the drama that unfolds in
forgotten café as they wait for the Tour to pass, or explaining why
he is standing stark naked on Belgian cobbles with a tyre in his
hand in the morning mist, he always uncovers the true soul of
cycling – why we do it, why we watch it, why we hate it, why we
love it – stripped bare.
Výber kníh autorov
Ebury Press ,
Wilfried de Jong
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Ebury Press,
Wilfried de Jong
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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