New from award-winning author Matt Rendell,an examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro Valverde and the moral decay at the heart of Spanish cycling.
Alejandro Valverde - the'Green Bullet'- was an international symbol of Spanish cycling for a quarter of a century before his retirement in 2022. Hard-working and supremely talented,he won the Vuelta a Espana and stood on the podium of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.
World champion in 2018,he was also the world's number-one-ranked rider four times. A man of indisputable charisma,he was also a convicted doping cheat. When the Spanish police investigation,Operacion Puerto,uncovered a vast international blood doping ring,Valverde denied all involvement. The revelations unearthed by Operacion Puerto threatened to force cycling off the road.
Valverde's long career was a high wire walk between the venal interests that surround elite sport in Spain. In a nation beset by corruption,political incompetence and social division,Valverde's talent aided the public image of unscrupulous political and economic institutions.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781474609746Number of pages: 288Weight: 510 gDimensions: 238 x 166 x 28 mm
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