Monuments
The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races
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Word Count
104,000 words, Guess
Page Count
416 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28513741M
- ISBN-139781408846810
- OCLC Control Number894234040
- OCLC Control Number872761418
- OCLC Control Numbermonumentsgritglo0000coss
Classifications
- LCCGV1049
- LCCGV1049 .C67 2014
Description
"The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called "Monuments," the five legendary races that are the sport's equivalent of golf's majors or the grand slams in tennis. Milan-Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy date back more than a century, and each of them is an anomaly in modern-day sport, the cycling equivalent of the Monaco Grand Prix. Each of the Monuments has a fascinating history, featuring tales of the finest and largest characters in the sport. In The Monuments, Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these extraordinary races and the riders they have immortalized"--
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