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Title: MERCKX: HALF MAN, HALF BIKE
By: William Fotheringham
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0224074512
ISBN 13: 9780224074513
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Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 28 March, 2013
Pages: 320
Description: Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been. Merckx was a machine. It wasn't just the number of victories (445); it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. He didn't just beat his opponents, he crushed them.
Synopsis: What makes a man the greatest of all time? Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to football: quite simply, the best there has ever been. Merckx was a machine. It wasn't just the number of victories (445); it was his remorseless domination that created the legend. He didn't just beat his opponents, he crushed them. But his triumphs only tell half a story that includes horrific injury, a doping controversy and tragedy. He was nicknamed 'The Cannibal' for his insatiable appetite for victory, but the moniker did scant justice to a man who was handsome, sensitive and surprisingly anxious. Britain's leading cycling writer, William Fotheringham, goes back to speak to those who were there at the time and those who knew Merckx best to find out what made Eddy Merckx so invincible.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Yellow Jersey Press
Prizes: Short-listed for British Sports Book Awards: Autobiography/Biography of the
Returns: Returnable
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