Heroes, Villains & Velodromes - a story of British success
Chris Hoy's meteoric career is interwoven with the story of how Britain became the dominant track cycling nation (HarperSport)
With track
cycling becoming the most recent addition to the very small list of sports at
which
Olympic and nine-time world champion Chris Hoy has been a leading figure in this revolution, and he is the principal character in a book that includes in-depth interviews with all the key people, from Peter Keen to David Brailsford, Chris Boardman and many others.
Graeme Obree, reviewing the book in The Scotsman newspaper, wrote: "This is very much a multi-faceted book where Chris Hoy, along with Craig MacLean and others, form a thread that tells an amazing story of transformation, possibly never seen on such a scale in any other sport ever.
"This is an absolutely must-read book that tells a story that had to be told; it is the story of a new era in British cycling that fills me with excitement with the approach of the Beijing Olympics."
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