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Boy Racer

Mark Cavendish

2009352 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009Ebury Publishing · ENGISBN 9781407030142
  • 2009Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9780091932756
  • 2009Ebury Publishing · ENGISBN 9781407030159
  • 2010Ebury Press · 352 pagesISBN 9780091932763
  • 2010Ebury Press · 352 pagesISBN 9780091932770

Live the pure adrenaline of the Tour de France alongside British cycling's hottest young superstarBoy Racer steps behind the scenes of the Tour de France. It unmasks the exotic, contradictory, hysterical and brutal world of professional cycling from the compellingly candid viewpoint of someone right in the thick of it.Written off as 'fat' and 'useless' in his youth, Mark Cavendish is now cycling's brightest star. His extraordinary quadruple stage-win at last year's Tour proved him Britain's best ever cyclist.Some have called him cocky, but to anyone who doesn't like his style, Mark will simply shrug his shoulders and reply, 'I know I'm good. There's no point lying about it.'Peers say that they have never seen anyone with Cavendish's hunger for success and while this fearlessness – both in the saddle and on the record – has at times led to controversy, it has also earned him the respect of ever more fans.In Boy Racer we follow him through through the mayhem of the Tour de France in a page-turning journey of pure exhilaration.

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