One of Us
He is the new world champion, a young man dedicated to his work, with the world at his feet, but ready to abandon everything for the sake of his family. Having dreamt of becoming a racing cyclist since childhood, he gradually rises to become a racing cyclist of world class. His encounter with young love while still a student confronts him with a difficult moral choice. As a young man with prospects in competitive sport, he treats the problem as another stage, albeit challenging, but just another stage in the race that goes under the name of Life. Stages, races, victories, defeats – his early life is played out on the pages of this story. Entering his world we can "try on for size" the hard fate of a professional racing cyclist who, sacrificing his strength and his youth, like most of us, strives to make his dream come true. Only when he achieves this does he realise that real life goes on beyond that point and that often what seemed to be the finishing line actually turns out to be the start. Modern sport, like modern life, makes ever growing demands on us. Young people today often realise too late that the trials and difficulties of any stage of even the hardest race come to an end where it says FINISH. But no matter what, real life goes on, demanding ever further new sacrifices from us! Reading this book will help you understand the ways in which psychological pressure is sometimes applied to force a young athlete to accept the merciless rules of modern sport. Once the racing cyclist has accepted them, he commits a fatal error... The fate of a talented and committed young man confronts us. He is intelligent and strong-willed. He is one of many... one of us.
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One of Us
He is the new world champion, a young man dedicated to his work, with the world at his feet, but ready to abandon everything for the sake of his family. Having dreamt of becoming a racing cyclist since childhood, he gradually rises to become a racing cyclist of world class. His encounter with young love while still a student confronts him with a difficult moral choice. As a young man with prospects in competitive sport, he treats the problem as another stage, albeit challenging, but just another stage in the race that goes under the name of Life. Stages, races, victories, defeats – his early life is played out on the pages of this story. Entering his world we can "try on for size" the hard fate of a professional racing cyclist who, sacrificing his strength and his youth, like most of us, strives to make his dream come true. Only when he achieves this does he realise that real life goes on beyond that point and that often what seemed to be the finishing line actually turns out to be the start. Modern sport, like modern life, makes ever growing demands on us. Young people today often realise too late that the trials and difficulties of any stage of even the hardest race come to an end where it says FINISH. But no matter what, real life goes on, demanding ever further new sacrifices from us! Reading this book will help you understand the ways in which psychological pressure is sometimes applied to force a young athlete to accept the merciless rules of modern sport. Once the racing cyclist has accepted them, he commits a fatal error... The fate of a talented and committed young man confronts us. He is intelligent and strong-willed. He is one of many... one of us.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781463004019 |
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| Publisher: | BookCountry |
| Publication date: | 12/17/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 106 KB |
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