The monuments

Peter Cossins

The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the professional riders really prize. Toughest, longest and dirtiest of all are the so-called 'Monuments', the five legendary races that are the sport's equivalent of golf's majors or the grand slams in tennis. Milan-Sanremo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris­-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Tour of Lombardy date back more than a century, and each of them is an anomaly in modern-day sport, the cycling equivalent of the Monaco Grand Prix. Time has changed them to a degree, but they remain as brutally testing as they ever have been. They provide the sport's outstanding one-day performers with a chance to measure themselves against each other and their predecessors in the most challenging tests in world cycling.

Author(s): Cossins, Peter
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 16/03/2023
Pagination: 448 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Bloomsbury Sport
Published By: Bloomsbury Sport
Book Classification: Cycling: general & touring|European history|History of sport
Dimensions: 232x152x38
Weight: 400
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781399407861