On Tour

'There is me trailing home 131st and, for all I know, I might be a top 50 rider if we all started on a level playing field ...Bollocks to you all. You are a bunch of cheating bastards. At least I can look myself in the mirror.' Bradley Wiggins contemplates Floyd Landis testing positive for testosterone in the 2006 Tour de France The 2010 account will be an instant book published in the autumn following the Tour. Part day-by-day diary it will also include wider, deeper reflections on the history of the Tour, famous figures, etc, and be illustrated with Scott Mitchell's atmospheric, black and white photography. The Tour has featured in Wiggins's 2008 autobiography, but really only in the light of a scandal he was caught up in. The emphasis of that book was very much on his childhood, his father and track cycling at the Olympics; here, Wiggins' new found love of road racing, and its pinnacle, the Tour de France, take centre stage, particularly the gruelling 2010 race, which although played out somewhat in the shadow of his high finish in 2009, was nevertheless an exemplary exercise in true grit, and fighting spirit against the odds.

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"ON TOUR is a brutally honest account of this year's Tour...ON TOUR puts road cycling and, ultimately, the burden of expectation which comes with it, on centre stage." ROADCYCLINGUK.COM "As well as Wiggins's brutally honest account of his Tour...the book is illustrated by Mitchell's stunningly atmospheric black-and-white photographs" MSN.CO.UK "Great new book by Bradley Wiggins...A great gift for anyone interested in cycling like me!!" -- Sir Paul Smith "An illuminating insight into life in and out of the saddle" SPORT MAGAZINE "a suitably gritty but illuminating book...supplemented by atmospheric black-and-white photographs." -- Donald McRae THE GUARDIAN "Beautifully supported by Scott Mitchell's photography...Contains wit, intelligence, self-awareness and brilliant appreciation of fellow riders, a credit to Wiggins" -- Huw Richards THE GUARDIAN

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Bradley Wiggins is the three-times Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist who has achieved all there is to achieve in on the track in cycling. His focus in now road racing, in particular the Tour de France. SCOTT MITCHELL is a freelance photographer based in Edinburgh. Since graduating in 1997 his work has been mainly focused around portraiture and location work. He has exhibited in the UK and internationally.

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