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THE MONUMENTS - PETER COSSINS KARTONIERT (TB)

An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary classic races in world cycling. The Tour de
France may provide the most obvious fame and glory  but it is cycling's one-day tests that the
professional riders really prize. Toughest  longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called
'Monuments'  the five legendary races that are the sport's equivalent of golf's majors or the
grand slams in tennis. Milan-Sanremo  the Tour of Flanders  Paris­-Roubaix 
Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy date back more than a century  and each of them
is an anomaly in modern-day sport  the cycling equivalent of the Monaco Grand Prix. Time has
changed them to a degree  but they remain as brutally testing as they ever have been. They
provide the sport's outstanding one-day performers with a chance to measure themselves against
each other and their predecessors in the most challenging tests in world cycling. From the
bone-shattering bowler-hat cobbles of the Paris-Roubaix to the insanely steep hellingen in the
Tour of Flanders  each race is as unique as the riders who push themselves through extreme
exhaustion to win them and enter their epic history. Over the course of a century  only Rik Van
Looy  Eddy Merckx and Roger De Vlaeminck have won all five races. Yet victory in a single
edition of a Monument guarantees a rider lasting fame. For some  that one victory has even more
cachet than success in a grand tour. Each of the Monuments has a fascinating history  featuring
tales of the finest and largest characters in the sport. In this updated edition of The
Monuments Peter Cossins tells the tumultuous history of these extraordinary races and the
riders they have immortalised.

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