Charly Wegelius – författare
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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
204 kr
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**Winner - Sweetspot Cycling Book of the Year** For 11 years I was a professional cyclist, competing in the hardest and greatest races on Earth. I was in demand from the world’s best teams, a well-paid elite athlete. But I never won a race. I was the hired help.When my mum dropped me off in a small French town aged 17, I was full of determination to be a professional cyclist, but I was completely green. I went from mowing the team manager’s lawn to winning every amateur race I entered. Then I turned pro and realised I hated the responsibility and pressure of chasing victory. And that’s when I became a domestique.I learned to take that hurt and give it everything I had to give, all for someone else’s win. When the order came in to ride I pushed out with the hardest rhythm I could, dragging the group faster and faster, until my whole body screamed with pain. There were times I rode myself to a standstill, clutching the barrier metres from the line, as the lead group shot past. But that’s what made me a so good at my job.As my career took off, I started looking at the fans lining the route, cheering us like heroes. The passion for cycling oozed off them, but they couldn’t know what it was really like. They didn’t see the terrible hotels, the crazy egos or all the shit that goes with great expectations. Well, this is how it is…
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Engelska, 2013144 kr
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**Winner - Sweetspot Cycling Book of the Year** For 11 years I was a professional cyclist, competing in the hardest and greatest races on Earth. I was in demand from the world’s best teams, a well-paid elite athlete. But I never won a race. I was the hired help.When my mum dropped me off in a small French town aged 17, I was full of determination to be a professional cyclist, but I was completely green. I went from mowing the team manager’s lawn to winning every amateur race I entered. Then I turned pro and realised I hated the responsibility and pressure of chasing victory. And that’s when I became a domestique.I learned to take that hurt and give it everything I had to give, all for someone else’s win. When the order came in to ride I pushed out with the hardest rhythm I could, dragging the group faster and faster, until my whole body screamed with pain. There were times I rode myself to a standstill, clutching the barrier metres from the line, as the lead group shot past. But that’s what made me a so good at my job.As my career took off, I started looking at the fans lining the route, cheering us like heroes. The passion for cycling oozed off them, but they couldn’t know what it was really like. They didn’t see the terrible hotels, the crazy egos or all the shit that goes with great expectations. Well, this is how it is…
Häftad, Tyska
206 kr
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Spanska, 2016105 kr
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Charly Wegelius, nacido en Finlandia pero criado en York, Gran Bretaña, fue uno de los ciclistas británicos más prestigiosos del pelotón internacional, donde rodó como profesional durante la primera década de este siglo. Como profesional, nunca ganó nada. Como tantos otros ciclistas que no se vistieron de amarillo o no subieron nunca a un podio, su trabajo era el de gregario: ayudar a su jefe de filas a ganar, aun cuando esto supusiera renunciar a cualquier opción de victoria o gloria personal. Era un "soldado raso" y luchó para abrirse camino en uno de los deportes más duros y exigentes que existen."Gregario" es un testimonio fascinante, honesto y duro del verdadero mundo del ciclismo profesional: el auténtico, el de los hoteles de mala muerte, el de los salarios bajos y la incertidumbre laboral, el de las caídas a toda velocidad que hacen peligrar toda una carrera, el de los dilemas del que sabe que nunca llegará a destacar y cuyo nombre no pasará a las historia. Pero, sobre todo, esta autobiografía es un canto formidable al sueño de un hombre: el de un ciclista de pura cepa que nunca se dopó "cuando muchos otros de su entorno sí lo hacían" y que llevó su cuerpo más allá del límite del dolor, sacrificando toda una juventud para poder ver hecho realidad su sueño de infancia, cuando, de niño, estudiaba fascinado los mapas del sur de Francia por donde se corría el Tour.