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Cyclists Killed While Racing: Tom Simpson, Joaquim Agostinho, Andrei Kivilev, Fabio Casartelli, Barbara Warren

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Chapters: Tom Simpson, Joaquim Agostinho, Andrei Kivilev, Fabio Casartelli, Barbara Warren, List of Professional Cyclists Who Died During a Race, Nicole Reinhart, Russell Mockridge, Isaac G lvez, Jean Alavoine, Stan Ockers, Jean-Pierre Monser, Knud Enemark Jensen, Serse Coppi, Jos Samyn, Alessandro Fantini, Georges Lemaire, Sa l Morales, Manuel Sanroma. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 85. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tom Simpson (30 November 193713 July 1967) was an English road racing cyclist who died of exhaustion on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the 13th stage of the Tour de France in 1967. The post mortem found that he had taken amphetamines and alcohol, a diuretic combination which proved fatal when combined with the heat, the hard climb of the Ventoux and a stomach complaint. Simpson was the youngest of the six children of coalmine worker Tom Simpson senior and his wife Alice, n e Cheetham, and was born in Haswell, County Durham. Tom senior worked at nearby South Hetton Colliery, while Alice ran Haswell Workingmen's Club. After World War II, the Simpson family moved to Harworth in north Nottinghamshire, another mining village, where Simpson grew up and acquired his interest in cycling. He attended the village school and later Worksop Technical College and in 1954 was an apprentice draughtsman at an engineering company in Retford. As a cyclist he joined Harworth and District cycling club and later Rotherham's Scala Wheelers. In 1954, still with the Harworth club, he wrote for advice to the former Tour rider, Charles P lissier, who was running a training camp in Monaco. Simpson wrote: Dear Sir, I am writing to you hoping you will give me some advice on racing and training for the 1955 season. I am 16 years old, and have raced on the track and also massed start road r...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=623013


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155843209
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 136 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155843207
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Tom Simpson, Joaquim Agostinho, Andrei Kivilev, Fabio Casartelli, Barbara Warren
  • Width: 229 mm


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