Angel of the Mountains : The Curious Life of Charly Gaul, Cycling's Forgotten Superstar by Paul Maunder

Angel of the Mountains : The Curious Life of Charly Gaul, Cycling's Forgotten Superstar by Paul Maunder'Maunder's book is more than just a biography of the rise and fall of a complicated man . . . It is also a critique of the damage that myth making and the media can do to an athlete; a study of what happens to a demigod when thrown from Mount Olympus' The TimesCharly Gaul is a forgotten cycling legend. Once a household name across Europe, the diminutive Luxembourger won the 1958 Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia twice. A unique rider, Gaul was

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