Olympic Gangster: The Legend of Jose Beyaert - Cycling Champion, Fortune Hunter and Outlaw [Audiobook] download free by Matt Rendell
- Listen audiobook: Olympic Gangster: The Legend of Jose Beyaert - Cycling Champion, Fortune Hunter and Outlaw
- Author: Matt Rendell
- Release date: 2011/10/3
- Publisher: TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Sports
- ISBN: 9781845965938
- Rating: 9.43 of 10
- Votes: 97
- Review by: Natasha Sams
- Review rating: 9.38 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/20
- Duration: 4H20M31S in 256 kbps (70.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, WavPack, MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV (compression RAR, TAR.7Z, ZIP, LZMA)
- Total pages original book: 352
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M3S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Restlessly vital and possessed of great physical strength, Jose Beyaert lived many lives. During the Second World War, he boxed and trafficked arms for the Resistance on his bicycle. After it, he became an international cyclist. In 1948, a mile from the end of the Olympic road race around Windsor Park, he broke away alone to take the gold medal and started an adventure that would last the rest of his life. A Tour de France rider in the sport's golden age, Jose was invited to open a new velodrome in Colombia, South America. He travelled, intending to stay a month. Instead, driven by his thirst for adventure, he stayed for fifty years, becoming by turns athlete, coach, businessman, emerald-trader, logger, smuggler, perhaps even hired killer. Matt Rendell, who knew Jose Beyaert and met many of his family, friends and associates, tells the fascinating story of an almost-forgotten sporting hero who, incapable of living by other people's rules, lived his many lives on his own terms.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Biography: Sport, Cycling, Biography: General, Crime & Criminology, Olympic Games, True Crime Books, True Crime Biographies
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.29 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x23mm
- Weight: 257g
- Printed by: Mainstream Publishing
- Published in: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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