Olympic Gangster: The Legend of Jose Beyaert by Matt Rendell, Paperback

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Olympic Gangster: The Legend of Jose Beyaert - Cycling Champion, Fortune Hunter & Outlaw,

This new biography tells the story of Jose Beyaert, an international cyclist and a Tour de France rider in the sport's golden age. During the Second World War, be boxed and trafficked arms for the Resistance and in later life was asked to open a new velodrome in Columbia - he travelled, intending to stay a month but ended up staying fifty years, becoming by turns athlete, coach, emerald-trader, smuggler and perhaps even a hired killer....

No of Pages: 352
Page Size: 150 x 233
Publisher: Mainstream
Published Date: Summer 09
Cover: paperback