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The Yellow Jersey
The Yellow Jersey
Oct 19, 2024 3:35 AM

Author:Peter Cossins

The Yellow Jersey

* WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*

Discover this 100-year anniversary celebration of the hardest-earned and most sacred prize in sport, the Tour de France's Yellow Jersey.

In 2019, the cycling world will celebrate the 100th anniversary of sport's most iconic and distinguished prize: the Yellow Jersey. Beautifully produced and packed full of interviews with riders such as Chris Froome, Thomas Voeckler and the oldest living wearer of the Yellow Jersey at 94, Antonin Rolland, The Yellow Jersey is a fitting celebration of the 'maillot jaune'.

In 1919 the leading rider was first instructed to wear the Yellow Jersey, following a campaign from fans and journalists who were struggling to identify the winning rider. 100 years on, the jersey has passed into almost sacred status. You'll never see an amateur rider wearing yellow - it is reserved purely for those who have sacrificed themselves in the world's greatest race.

Cossins will take the reader on a journey to the origins of the jersey and its early winners. He'll explore the effect of wearing yellow as a motivator and occasionally as a curse. Beautifully produced with original photography, The Yellow Jersey is an exquisite tribute to the greatest trophy in sport.

'Without doubt the most beautiful book to land on our desk this year... we can't recommend this book enough' Cycling Weekly

Reviews

As an author of cycling literature since the early nineties, Cossins clearly knows a thing or two about the sport. The Yellow Jersey takes the story of cycling’s most coveted prize, back to its humble beginnings, and intersperses facts, anecdotes and statistics to take you for an enjoyable ride through the history of the sport

—— Cycling News

Cossins has done a great job of tying together many aspects of Le Tour under the one central theme of the yellow jersey, resulting in an enjoyable, informative, readable, and alternative look at Le Tour – supported by a wide range of relevant images in a beautifully presented book

—— Richard Peploe , Road.cc

Without doubt the most beautiful book to land on our desk this year… we can’t recommend this book enough

—— Cycling Weekly

They Don’t Teach This…perfectly sums up striker Eniola Aluko’s struggles against her former employers at the FA…a painful battle for the truth

—— Emma John , Guardian, *Books of the Year*

[They Don’t Teach This] is hugely motivational and shows what it takes to be a world-class athlete… Aluko is open and honest

—— Fadumo Olow , Daily Telegraph

There is plenty for readers to get stuck into in this autobiography – a book that reminds us, if nothing else, that some things are bigger, more important than what happens on the field

—— Jade Craddock , NB

In this sensual, spiritual memoir, Prior-Palmer recounts her grueling journey through immense physical hardship, and her surprising transformation from underdog to champion

—— Esquire

Currently in the top five of Amazon’s sporting books list, lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury opens up on his struggles with mental health issues and the rise of the “Gypsy King” to the very pinnacle of the sport.

—— DAILY MAIL Online

Far from your typical sports autobiography […] Fury faces his mental health issues head on.

—— Sorted

An amazingly honest, courageous, passionate book.

—— Adam Smith

Candidly stark.

—— Daily Telegraph

A great read that explores his battle with depression and the rise, fall, then rise of the Gypsy King.

—— Will Muir

The People's Champion

—— The Times

The Amazing Real-Life Champion

—— Sylvester Stallone
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