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'The whole point of a race is to find a winner... I chose to race, so I chose to win.' For 14 years between 1965 and 1978, cyclist Edouard Louis Joseph Merckx simply devoured his rivals, their hopes and their careers. His legacy resides as much in the careers he ruined as the 445 victories - including five Tour de France wins and all the monument races - he amassed in his own right. So dominant had Merckx become by 1973 that he was ordered to stay away from the Tour for the good of the event.Stage 17 of the 1969 Tour de France perfectly illustrates his untouchable brilliance. Already wearing the yellow jersey on the col du Tourmalet, the Tour's most famous peak, Merckx powered clear and rode the last 140 kilometres to the finish-line in jaw-dropping solitude, eight minutes ahead of his nearest competitor.Merckx's era has been called cycling's Golden Age.It was full of memorable characters who, at any other time, would all have gone on to become legends. Yet Merckx's phenomenal career overshadowed them all. How did he achieve such incredible success? And how did his rivals really feel about him? Merckx failed drug tests three times in his career - were they really stitch ups as he claimed? And what of the crash at a track meet in Blois, France that killed Merckx's pacer Fernand Wambst, which Merckx claimed deeply affected him psychologically and physically? Or the attack by a spectator in 1975?Despite his unique achievements, we know little about the Cannibal beyond his victories. This will be the first comprehensive biography of Merckx in English, and will finally expose the truth behind this legendary man.

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Eddy Merckx was just before my time. I knew the name, of course, but didn't really know much about the man who used to just be called 'The Cannibal.' There are a couple of nice documentaries available on YouTube that center on Merckx, 'Stars and Watercarriers', 'The Greatest Show on Earth', and 'A Sunday in Hell' (although this last one is as much about another Belgian wunderkind, Roger de Vlaeminck...). After watching these a few times, I bought this for my Kindle.The various names of European people and places can get to be a bit much for the uninitiated, it is true... but that seems a small price to pay for the better understanding you come away with after reading the author's account. If I compare and contrast this book with 'Slaying the Badger', I think this is a much more thorough and fair read owing to the fact that Merckx was not consulted and declined to be interviewed. This left the author free to interview the people who knew him best, and the book winds up being less about Merckx the man and more about the Merckx mystique... the phenomenon that was Eddy Merckx and the impact he had on the sport.Merckx was so good initially, he could afford to be utterly ruthless. He didn't need to depend on anyone. Later, after his crash on the track in 1969, the emphasis seemed to be to build the strongest group of riders around Merckx and to increasingly rely upon their talents to bring him to the point where he could attack and win. Still, he was never one to give anything away, insisting that 'You give gifts at Christmas and birthdays, not at bike races.'One of the things I always admired about French champion Bernard Hinault was his willingness to help his team mates win important races in return for their loyalty...The book works hard at giving you a portrait of Merckx that is actually a series of small biographies of the riders, managers, coaches, etc. that knew and worked with or competed against him. This ends up being a very satisfying way of getting at 'Merckx the Phenomenon' if it is less successful at unlocking the essence of 'Merckx the Man.'It's all in this book... the good, the bad, and the ugly. There are reasons why many in the peloton didn't love Merckx, and there are many fine reasons for admiring him. The saddest aspect of the whole account are those final couple of years where he was desperately trying to keep on competing at the highest levels... his use of a banned drug (Stimul), for example. Yet I can only imagine what that must have been like... to have to let go of something that you had been so great at... that everyone - friends and foes alike - admired or hated you for.It reminded me of those stories of Roman conquerors riding in their chariots through the streets of Rome to celebrate their victories, a 'Triumph'... there was always a slave in the chariot holding a laurel wreath above the conquerors' head and whispering in his ear, "All glory is fleeting." Sometimes I've read where supposedly the slave whispers, "Remember, thou art only a mortal."The former to my mind applies to Merckx the Phenomenon and the latter to Merckx the Man.

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