Brailsford is finally sharing his secrets
SIR DAVE BRAILSFORD, the mastermind behind three Tour de France triumphs in four years, has finally agreed to publish his life story.
The book, What It Takes, is about Brailsford’s extraordinary cycling success with sky and also Team GB, who enjoyed multi-medal hauls at the Beijing and London olympics.
it was due to be released by Penguin last year but Brailsford had been nervous in 2013 — after his Team sky rider Chris Froome had won his first Tour de France — about going public too early in his career. He cited ‘personal reasons’ for the delay but also had reservations about working with a ghost-writer with little cycling knowledge.
But he has now given Penguin the go-ahead for the book to come out next year, with a cycling specialist as ghost-writer.
The original sub-title, Being the Best You Can Be In Sport, Work and Life, suggests the book would concentrate on leadership strategies similar to the sir Alex Ferguson model. But Brailsford now wants to write a straightforward life story about his time in cycling.
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