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ISBN
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9780224083089
Publisher
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Yellow Jersey Press
Subject
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Sports & Outdoor Recreation, Biography & True Stories
Binding
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PAPERBACK
Pages
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192
Year
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2009
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Iconic sportsman Tom Simpson was the first Briton to pull on the fabled yellow jersey of the Tour de France. His engaging autobiography, Cycling is My Life, first published in 1966, was written the year before he died tragically during the 1967 Tour at age twenty-nine.
Author Biography
Tom Simpson, born in 1937, was an English road racing cyclist whose successful career was cut tragically short by his death on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour de France. Simpson became the first Briton to wear the yellow jersey as leader of the 1962 Tourde France, finishing sixth overall. Then in 1965 he won the coveted accolade of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, the only cyclist to have won this award until Chris Hoy in 2008.
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