EAN: 9781509844005

JAN ULLRICH - DANIEL FRIEBE KARTONIERT (TB)

Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich  arguably the most
naturally talented cyclists of his generation  and also one of the most controversial champions
of the Tour de France.  Jan Ullrich announced himself to the world by winning the first first
mountain stage of the 1997 Tour de France. So awesome was his display that it sent shockwaves
throughout the world of cycling  with newspapers acclaiming him as 'The Real Boss' and 'King
Ullrich'. He went on to win the Tour that year by almost ten minutes  a margin not bettered
since and a result that was greeted as an era-defining changing of the guard. Everyone agreed:
Jan Ullrich was the future of cycling.     And yet  he was never again to regain those heights.
Though perfectly respectable  his career was already in decline as he stood on the winner's
podium. And when he retired almost a decade later amid allegations of doping  his reputation
lay in tatters.  Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was by Daniel Friebe  the acclaimed British
cycling journalist and author of Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal  is an exploration of what went
wrong. It is not a sporting disaster story  for Ullrich was one of the pre-eminent riders of
his time and a German national treasure for almost a decade  and credited with popularizing
cycling in his home country. This is a gripping account of how unbearable expectation  mental
and physical fragility  the legacies of a troubled childhood  a morally corrupt sport and one
individual - Lance Armstrong - conspired to reroute his destiny as well as that of cycling.
Never again after 1997 would cycling fans react to that level of performance with untainted
awe.

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