Steve Cummings

THE BREAK

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Proud Liverpudlian Steve Cummings raced for some of the world's top professional cycling teams, including BMC Racing, Team Sky and Team Dimension Data.

Steve’s impressive achievements in the saddle include medal wins at World Championship, Commonwealth and Olympic levels – spanning across 20 years of racing, both in the velodrome and on the road. Known as one of the most successful breakaway riders in recent times, Steve’s palmares include multiple stage wins at the Tour de France (2015, 2016). He is also a former Tour of Britain Champion (2016) and won the British Nationals double (road race and time trial) in 2017. He is now a Sport Director for INEOS Grenadiers 

Sharp, resourceful and a permanent outsider; for nearly 20 years Steve Cummings determinedly blazed his own winning trail in international cycling. A maverick who defied the dominant teams, to record a sequence of gloriously improbable victories, he has lived and raced with legends of the sport - Cavendish, Wiggins, Froome, Thomas and others - about whom he has strong views and untold stories.

This autobiography of one of Britain's most successful international riders of the modern era takes the reader from Steve's earliest days as a junior, pounding across the flatlands of the Wirral, through his love-hate relationships with the British Cycling track cycling squad, to his series of top-level breakaway victories in the Tour de France, Tour of Britain and Vuelta a España and - rather than standout physical talent - how developing his own strategies and training techniques enabled him to succeed against the odds.

THE BREAK is the first full-length account of the life and times of, in the words of ProCycling magazine, a 'universally popular and respected rider in the cycling world'.

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