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Boy Racer: My Journey to Tour de France Record-Breaker

by Mark Cavendish · 2009

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'Boy Racer' steps behind the scenes of the Tour de France. It unmasks the exotic, contradictory, hysterical and brutal world of professional cycling from the compellingly candid viewpoint of someone right in the thick of it.

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medium · 346 pages

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