Cycling Legends 03 Jacques Anquetil by Chris Sidwells
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Jacques Anquetil is one of the all-time greats. The first five-time Tour de France winner, the first to repeat Fausto Coppi’s Giro d’Italia-Tour double, the ultimate time triallist – a great champion but a mystery as a man.
Anquetil was never what he seemed, and for the first time in English Cycling Legends 03 Jacques Anquetil lifts the lid on the man as well as the sporting icon that was Jacques Anquetil. Using first-hand accounts from many who knew him best, we reveal the truth about the man who made his own rules.
Uncompromising yet fragile, brave yet needy, logical but superstitious, Jacques Anquetil was complicated. The personification of 1960s style and culture, his friends were film and music stars, but he was a country boy who loved to be alone in nature.
Maître Jacques, as he was called, is a puzzle solved by reading Cycling Legends 03 Jacques Anquetil.
Chris Sidwells
260 x 210 mm
148 pages
Perfect bound book printed on 120gsm quality uncoated paper
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Read this condensed extract from the book in a chapter on "The Impossible Double" - Jacques Anquetil and his teams exploits, all in the name of publicity, to overshadow Raymond Poulidor and the 1965 Tour de France.
