We Were Young and Carefree av Laurent Fignon

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<p><b><i>''Ah, I remember you: you''re the guy who lost the Tour de France by eight seconds!''</i></b><br><b><i>''No monsieur, I''m the guy who won the Tour twice.</i></b><br><b><br>The international bestselling autobiography of the legendary French cyclist Laurent Fignon</b><br><br> Two-time winner of the Tour de France in the early eighties, Laurent Fignon became the star for a new generation. In the 1989 tour, he lost out to his American arch-rival, Greg LeMond, by an agonising eight seconds.<br><br> In this revealing account, the former champion spares nobody, not even himself, and pulls back the curtain on what really went on behind the scenes of this epic sport - the friendships, the rivalries, the betrayals, the parties, the girls and, of course, the performance-enhancing drugs. Fignon''s story bestrides a golden age in cycling: a time when the headlines spoke of heroes, not doping, and a time when cyclists were afraid of nothing.<br><br><b>¿Sports book of the year</b><b>: He''s