As the Tour de France enters its punishing final week, my mind turns to books about cycling. Biographies of professional racers are the meat and potatoes of the genre, but typically they make for dull reading. Even journalists as capable as William Fotheringham or Matt Rendell struggle to breathe life into the litany of race results that makes up the career of a racer. More recently writers such as Jon Day and Paul Maunder have brought the techniques of the …
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