Phil C
08-05-2008, 03:31 PM
I finally went to the bookstore and bought it and I wasn't disappointed at all. In fact I was very pleased. It is called "We Might as Well Win." It is about being a team director in the Tour de France and gives insight into the strategies and decisions that must be made. It is great. He also gives some information about the time when he was a pro racer along with other pertinent interesting information. This is a great book. I highly recommend it.
A team director is like a head coach in the NFL or NBA or head manager in pro baseball. But he is more. He co-ordinates everything and is a big job. Johan is magnificient it. He has coached the Tour de France winners in 8 of 9 years with one rider for 7 and another one for one and that is remarkable. That is two winners over an 8 out of 9 years. The Tour de France to cycling is like the annual Super Bowl in football, the NBA final 2 in basketball and the World Series in baseball. No team director or any coach has done what Johan has done in cycling or any sport. I know Red Auerback won many titles in Boston but that was with the same team and basically the same players. Johan has done it with two riders. A remarkable man indeed.
Don't miss this book. It is still fairly new so you may want to wait till it is in paperback and cheaper but even at full price it is well worth it. I got home with it last night and was going to just read it for 30 minutes but it was so interesting that I made a 3 hour night out of it. Entertainment and insight indeed!
A team director is like a head coach in the NFL or NBA or head manager in pro baseball. But he is more. He co-ordinates everything and is a big job. Johan is magnificient it. He has coached the Tour de France winners in 8 of 9 years with one rider for 7 and another one for one and that is remarkable. That is two winners over an 8 out of 9 years. The Tour de France to cycling is like the annual Super Bowl in football, the NBA final 2 in basketball and the World Series in baseball. No team director or any coach has done what Johan has done in cycling or any sport. I know Red Auerback won many titles in Boston but that was with the same team and basically the same players. Johan has done it with two riders. A remarkable man indeed.
Don't miss this book. It is still fairly new so you may want to wait till it is in paperback and cheaper but even at full price it is well worth it. I got home with it last night and was going to just read it for 30 minutes but it was so interesting that I made a 3 hour night out of it. Entertainment and insight indeed!