Between the Lines: My Autobiography

Between the Lines: My Autobiography
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The Golden Girl of British cycling opens up, for the first time, in searingly honest detail about what drives her to compete in a sport she no longer loves. Written with Donald McRae, 2 time winner of the William Hill Award, “Between the Lines” is THE Olympic autobiography.Victoria Pendleton MBE is not your typical female athlete.Admired as much by the weekly glossies as she is the newspaper back pages, she transcends her sport.In 2005 she became first British female to win Gold at the cycling World Championships in 40 years. She followed it up with gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in 2006 and another World Championship in 2007.Arriving in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games, Pendleton was on top of the world. She didn’t disappoint.In an enthralling example of track cycling, Pendleton took Gold and joined the ranks of British Olympic heroes.And then it started to go wrong.Feted by the press and the public alike, behind the scenes the cracks and strains started to show. Despite retaining her World Champion status in 2009, it was a close run thing and her shield of invincibility started to drop. Victoria was falling out of love with her sport.The sport that had made her was starting to tear her apart.“Between the Lines” documents the considerable lows as well as the well-known highs and reveals why Victoria almost turned her back on cycling before rediscovering her Championship winning form in 2011, the day after suffering one of her most humiliating days on the track.Hitting the shelves within a matter of weeks from the end of her Olympic programme and written with Donald McRae, two time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, “Between the Lines” promises to be the most honest and emotional book from an Olympian to date.

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Victoria Pendleton. Between the Lines: My Autobiography

Between the Lines

Laoshan Velodrome, Beijing,Tuesday 19 August 2008

Laoshan Velodrome, Beijing, Tuesday 19 August 2008

Pruszków, Poland, 26 March 2009

Ballerup Super Arena, Copenhagen, 24 March 2010

Ballerup Super Arena, Copenhagen, 27 March 2010

Apeldoorn, Holland, 23 October 2011

The Olympic Velodrome, Stratford, London, 17 February 2012

Hisense Arena, Melbourne, 6 April 2012

Olympic Velodrome, Stratford, London, Thursday 2 August 2012

Olympic Velodrome, Stratford, London, Friday 3 August 2012

Olympic Velodrome, Stratford, London, Tuesday 7 August 2012

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WITH DONALD MCRAE

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We racked up some big rides together. I remember telling my teacher at Fearnhill on a Monday morning that I had ridden fifty miles the previous day. ‘Fifteen!’ she said, as if I needed to be corrected. ‘No,’ I said quietly. ‘Fifty. Five-oh.’ I don’t think she believed me, even though she knew I was not a girl who usually lied. But Dad, Alex and I had really ridden fifty miles. We had stopped for a break in the middle but, still, fifty miles for a thirteen-year-old girl felt like an achievement.

Alex and I also won lots of little trophies at grass-track meetings around the Home Counties. They felt more like picnics than anything serious and we enjoyed racing each other and some of the same kids that popped up all over the place. The grass-tracks developed our bike-handling skills and, allied to the stamina we’d forged on our Sunday morning marathons with Dad, Alex and I began to win regularly. We’d come home and say to Mum: ‘Look what we won! Ta-dah!’ And we’d wave our small cups and plinths of bronze cyclists in the air.

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