William Fotheringham began writing about bike racing in 1988 and was covering the Tour de France within two years, one of maybe half a dozen British journalists on the race. He spent much of the 1990s writing for
Cycling Weekly and
Cycle Sport, combining that with work for the
Guardian, who talked him into covering the Tour for them in 1994.
On the sports desk in the
Guardian he covered rugby as well as cycling, and reported on the World Cup in 2003. His first full-length book,
Put Me Back on My Bike, was published in 2002. His most recent book is
Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike.
Eddy Merckx est au cyclisme ce que Mohamed Ali est à la boxe, Pelé au football, et Michael Jordan au basket. Le Belge a écrasé le cyclisme de la fin des années 1960 au milieu des « seventies ». Les surnoms en disent parfois long. Pour Eddy Merckx, ce fut le « Cannibale », qui traduisait...
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