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Sean Yates: It's All About the Bike: My Autobiography
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Sean Yates
Before Bradley Wiggins, there was Sean Yates. Behind Bradley Wiggins, there was Sean Yates. One of only five Britons to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, Sean Yates burst onto the cycling scene as the rawest pure talent this country has ever seen. After turning professional at the age of 22, he soon became known as a die-hard domestique, putting his body on the
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Hardcover
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320 pages
Published
December 1st 2013
by Transworld Publishers
(first published September 12th 2013)
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I have been a fan of Yates for years, no decades, from when I started watching the Tour de France when he was one of the few English mens actually taking part in the race.
He has an illustrious career both as a rider and latterly as a directeur sportif of the Discovery team and for the Sky victories of Wiggins. As a rider he broke several records, some of which he still holds, including the fastest Tour de France time trail on a normal bike (since broken with dedicate time trial bikes) and when h ...more
He has an illustrious career both as a rider and latterly as a directeur sportif of the Discovery team and for the Sky victories of Wiggins. As a rider he broke several records, some of which he still holds, including the fastest Tour de France time trail on a normal bike (since broken with dedicate time trial bikes) and when h ...more
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Great book. Sean is one of the best. I thought his chapter on his health,which he was most modest about and thought it was boring, was very interesting as some were as mine and it's interesting what they can do when money is no object. He was directeur sportif for Bradley Wiggins 2012 Tour de France win and his Olympic Gold Medal. He still,at 55, rides his bike, usually when most are still in bed, every day. Respect.
There are interesting bits in this book if you like cycling. It was written with no regard for narrative though so it's a simple, linear trajectory from his first race as a kid to his last one as he was older. He would've done better to group his anecdotes under common themes otherwise, as it is, it wasn't as engaging a read as it could have been.
Really good read about how professional cycling has changed in the last 30 years. very frank at times and also interesting perception on the Lance Armstrong issue. Worth a read.
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Sean Yates is an English former professional cyclist and former head directeur sportif at team Sky.
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