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In Pursuit of Glory: The Autobiography - Bradley Wiggins

 
Description: ISBN 0752898639 / Genre: Biography / Author: Bradley Wiggins / Hardcover / 288 Pages / Book is published 2008-10-02 by Orion

Newest Review: ... Bradley learns of the admittance of his estranged father to a hospital in Australia with a potentially serious condition. The ... more

 ... effects of his father - professional cyclist Gary Wiggins - hang heavily over many of the events in this book, as although he left his son at a very young age after a volatile relationship with his mother and met Brad only a handful of occasions thereafter, he seems to have had an unduly large impact on his life. Indeed, Gary is discussed far more in this book than Brad's supportive and loving mother; it seems that his desire to win in cycling is driven as much by a need to prove something to his absent father as it...more

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This may seem like an unusual book for me to be reviewing, and to be honest with you if you had told me a couple of months back that I would have read it, I would probably have laughed. I did go through a phase a few years ago where I was very much into reading biographies, but I haven't picked one up in quite a while - and this is certainly the first biography of a sporting personality that I have tried (my choices previously inclined more towards historical figures and writers). So what inspired me to pick up Bradley Wiggins' autobiography? Well, undeniably there was the wave of post-Beijing euphoria that was sweeping the country that piqued my interest, and I had ...  Read the complete review

 

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