Description

The author recalls his life in the professional cycling world, recounting his winning, and losing, strategies at major competitions, and the place of doping among riders.

Auteur

Mark Cavendish is the indisputable greatest sprinter in cycling. With over 25 Tour de France stage wins, Milan-San Remo, the TourÃf ¢ EURS ¬ EURz ¢s points jersey, a dozen stage wins in the Giro and Vuelta, multiple Olympic gold medals, and victories in road and track world championships, no other sprinter in history can boast as many prestigious wins. Widely regarded as the most exciting and charismatic young rider to join the sport in years, Cavendish rode for the American cycling team HTC-Columbia and for BritainÃf ¢ EURS ¬ EURz ¢s Team Sky, and now rides for the Belgian team Omega Pharma-Quick-Step.

Written off as "fat" ? and "useless" ? in his youth, Mark Cavendish has sprinted to the front of the Tour de France peloton to become cycling's brightest star--and its most outspoken.

Following his debut book Boy Racer, Cavendish has truly come of age as one of the best cycling sprinters of all time.

In At Speed, the Manx Missile details what it took to become the winningest Tour sprinter ever, examines the plan that led to his world championship victory, reveals the personal toll of his sacrifice that helped teammate Bradley Wiggins become the UK's first-ever Tour de France winner, and confesses his bitter disappointment at the London Olympic Games.

Screaming fights with teammates, rancorous contract negotiations, crushing disappointments--for Mark Cavendish, winning is always the cure. His book At Speed is the page-turning story of a living legend in the sport of cycling.

Prologue Chapter One: Dangerous Lines
Chapter Two: Five Stages
Chapter Three: Revised Ambitions
Chapter Four: An Extra Year
Chapter Five: High Hopes
Chapter Six: Green is the Color
Chapter Seven: Project Rainbow Jersey
Chapter Eight: Sky High
Chapter Nine: Change of Plans
Chapter Ten: Winning Clean
Chapter Eleven: A New Start

Epilogue
Acknowledgments

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