Heroes, Villains & Velodromes : Chris Hoy & Britain's Track Cycling Revolution by Richard Moore. Hardback,310 pages.

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Chris Hoy, the reigning Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion and 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year ! (The second cyclist to be awarded this honour, the first was Tom Simpson). He has been instrumental in British track cycling's remarkable transformation from also-rans to leading world superpower.

Author Richard Moore shadows Hoy throughout to provide a revealing insight of how an elite athlete, lives, breathes and pushes the boundaries of his sport.

This is also the story of an extraordinary year, one which started with Hoy's best-ever world championships in Mallorca - where, for the first time in his career, he became a double world champion - continued with his attempt on the world kilometre record in La Paz, Bolivia. Hoy then went on to Japan where he spent three months riding the crazy Keirin circuit, before returning to training at the Manchester velodrome in the build up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Moore has attained unprecedented levels of access to the key members of the all-conquering British team and support staff, including top coaches, world-renowned psychiatrists, doctors (where the subject of drug abuse is an ever-present shadow) and the pivotal characters behind the scenes.

310 Pages with colour photos.145 x 225 mm.Hardback.

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