In Search of Robert Millar: Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding Britain’s Most Successful Tour de France Cyclist

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Richard Moore. In Search of Robert Millar: Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding Britain’s Most Successful Tour de France Cyclist

IN SEARCH OF ROBERT MILLAR

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Dedication

Contents

Prologue

It’s the Grit that Makes the Oyster

Mammy’s Boy

The Smaller They Are, the Harder They Fight

A Jungle

The Y Team

The Little Cockerel

The Shirt in the Shop

Cry No Tears

He Loves Being a Star

Domestique De Luxe

You Don’t Put Ordinary Fuel in a Sports Car

Life in the Fast Lane

A No-Pain Zone

Epilogue

Picture Section

Acknowledgments

Picture Credits

Index

About the Publisher

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Richard Moore

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The career of Britain’s best-ever cyclist ended abruptly, ignominiously, and without fanfare. His French team went bust on the eve of what would have been his twelfth Tour de France, and that was it. The end. Millar disappeared.

He didn’t literally disappear, at least not at first. He hovered around the cycling scene for a few years; he was appointed British national coach, and he wrote, with flair and humour, for cycling magazines. But his spell as national coach ended just as ignominiously when he was told, less than a year into the job, that he was surplus to requirements.

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