The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races

by Peter Cossins

Book Overview

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, Li ge-Bastogne-Li ge and the Tour of Lombardy date back more than a century, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408846810
• ISBN13: 9781408846810
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"