This is vividly portrayed when Tyler Hamilton had to drop out of the 2004 race, after a crash left him with no feeling in his legs. There is something far worse than crashing: being left behind.
You realize their motivation takes them past fear and past pain. The graphic storytelling makes you read faster than you wish, racing along with the peloton. Because at it’s core, will is about belief, and with Armstrong we can see the belief happening. “Armstrong is fascinating for many reasons, but mostly because he’s our purest embodiment of the fundamental human act – to impose the will on the uncaring world – an act that compels our attention because it seems so simple and yet is secretly magical. His narrative style draws the reader in at every level, covering the sport as well as the personalities. Much of the book covers Armstrong’s chief rivals as well as his teammates and race directors.Ĭoyle packs a great deal of action into each chapter, with generous background and opinions from a wide variety of racing professionals. Renowned sports photographer and photojournalist Elizabeth Kreutz has been granted unparalled access to Lance’s day-to-day world in this, his most triumphant season.Lance Armstrong's War is likely the most complete biography of Lance Armstrong in print, since Coyle covered the 2004 tour over a period of 15 months with full access to Lance, team members, rivals, doctors, and European press. The journal entries will accompany spectacular four-color photos, that offer breathtaking views of the race stages as well as intimate, behind-the-scenes shots. Comeback 2.0 is Lance Armstrong’s first-person photo-journal of his 2009 comeback season with the goal to take the LIVESTRONG message around the world.Heavily illustrated with color photos and text, Comeback 2.0 includes an introduction by Lance that frames his decision to return to competitive cycling followed by journal-like entries written through the course of his comeback season beginning with the Tour Down Under, followed by the Tour of California, his spectacular crash in the first stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon race in Spain that resulted in a broken collar bone, the Giro d’Italia, and finally the Tour de France. Publishers Description: After three years in retirement following his record-setting seventh Tour de France win-which he accomplished after successfully battling the testicular cancer that almost killed him-Lance Armstrong announced his return to professional cycling to help promote a Global Cancer Campaign. Description: Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
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