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Project Rainbow

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by Rod Ellingworth


  Looking at the route, with Matt Parker, road Worlds at Mendrisio, 23 September, 2009

  The night before the race

  With Cav, after the scratch race at the world track championships, 2009

  With Dave Brailsford and the team before a training ride to Box Hill for the London-Surrey Olympic test event, 2011, which Cav won. Cav’s on his green-accented Venge, having just won the green jersey in the Tour de France

  Job done – on the bus with the rainbow jersey

  In the car with Sean Yates, Tour de France 2010

  With Dave Brailsford, Tour de France 2013

  About the Author

  Having represented Great Britain from 1989 until his retirement in 2001, Rod Ellingworth founded and ran the GB Cycling Academy. Alongside Dave Brailsford, he was then instrumental in creating Team Sky in November 2008.

  William Fotheringham has been the Guardian’s cycling correspondent since 1994. He has covered twenty-two Tours de France and four Olympic Games and his published work includes the classic biographies Put Me Back On My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson and Merckx: Half-Man, Half-Bike. He also co-wrote Bradley Wiggins’s bestselling memoir My Time.

  Copyright

  First published in 2013

  by Faber and Faber Ltd

  Bloomsbury House

  74–77 Great Russell Street

  London WC1B 3DA

  This ebook edition first published in 2013

  All rights reserved

  © Rod Ellingworth, 2013

  The right of Rod Ellingworth to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

  ISBN 978–0–571–30352–6

 

 

 


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