The war on wheels inside the Keirin and Japan's cycling subculture
Chaotic origins ; The anatomy of a race (part I) -- Keiran boom, gambling doom ; The anatomy of a race (part II) -- Schooled in cycling ; The anatomy of a race (part III) -- Frames of steel ; The anatomy of race (part IV) -- World, meet Keirin ; The anatomy of a race : postscript -- Into the headwin...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Pegasus Books
2021
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| Ausgabe: | First Pegasus books cloth edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Chaotic origins ; The anatomy of a race (part I) -- Keiran boom, gambling doom ; The anatomy of a race (part II) -- Schooled in cycling ; The anatomy of a race (part III) -- Frames of steel ; The anatomy of race (part IV) -- World, meet Keirin ; The anatomy of a race : postscript -- Into the headwind. The keirin, which means "war on wheels" in Japanese, is now a high profile Olympic sport and attracts millions of spectators. It is primed to be one of the must-see events of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. But its origins are humble, even strange. Like the Tour de France was originally conceived to sell newspapers, the keirin was invented in post-war Japan as a way to raise taxes on gambling |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) |
| Beschreibung: | 264 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781643132006 978-1-64313-200-6 1643132008 1-64313-200-8 |