Racing hard - William Fotheringham

Few
British schoolchildren of the seventies can have been as obsessed with
the Tour de France as William Fotheringham, who smuggled copies of Miroir du Cyclisme
into lessons to read inside his books. He saw the Tour for the first
time in 1984, avidly following that year's race on television in the
Normandy village where he lived.

Since joining the Guardian in
1989, William Fotheringham has been at the forefront of British cycling
journalism. Here he reflects on the events of the last twenty-three
years - the triumphs, the tragedies and the scandals that have engulfed
the world's most demanding sport. Key articles from his career are
annotated with notes and reflections. What would he have said if he'd
known then what we all know now about Lance Armstrong? Which cyclists
and teams were not all they seemed? And which victories still rank as
the greatest of all time?

This is the definitive collection of cycling reporting.