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leemac027's review
adventurous
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
Although this was published back in 2012, it is still worth reading as it captures a critical moment in time when cycling was starting its most serious attempt to go clean. It also covers the incredible Bradley Wiggins blasting onto the scene and making his mark on the world of international cycling.
It focuses on the Tour de France 2012 where he become the first Brit to win, but it also includes lots of stories from his childhood through to his first tentative steps in competition and then onto the world stage.
2012 was a brilliant year for Wiggins culminating in an Olympic Gold Medal at home in London - a year that will be hard to top.
John Deering is certainly a cycling fan and puts the reader into each stage with snippets from the teams, riders and management. The politics, rivalries, joys and heartbreaks of competition.
Twelve years on and we have new champions in place, but they are standing on the shoulders of those that came before and this book captures that moment where British riders and more non-European riders started to steal the limelight.
A fabulous read.
It focuses on the Tour de France 2012 where he become the first Brit to win, but it also includes lots of stories from his childhood through to his first tentative steps in competition and then onto the world stage.
2012 was a brilliant year for Wiggins culminating in an Olympic Gold Medal at home in London - a year that will be hard to top.
John Deering is certainly a cycling fan and puts the reader into each stage with snippets from the teams, riders and management. The politics, rivalries, joys and heartbreaks of competition.
Twelve years on and we have new champions in place, but they are standing on the shoulders of those that came before and this book captures that moment where British riders and more non-European riders started to steal the limelight.
A fabulous read.
nicki_in_nz's review
4.0
A journalistic look at Wiggo's 2012 Tour de France and racing career leading up to that point. If you're a fan and watched every day of the Tour with bated breath like me, you'll probably really love it. It brought every stage back vividly. If you've watched the Tour for a while it'll be even better as you'll remember the earlier years described too. If you're new to cycling this won't be quite as evocative, but still a worthwhile read. As a big British cycling fan, I loved it.
borisignatievich's review
2.0
Was ok. Basic account of Wiggins winning the Tour, stage by stage, with bits of his life tacked on to the end of each chapter. But the proofreading seems to have been terrible, with a number of basic errors slipping through, and it gets a bit fanboyish at times
5/10
5/10
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