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Colombia Es Pasion!

Matt Rendell

By winning the 2019 Tour de France Egan Bernal became the race's youngest champion in 110 years and the first from the South American nation of Colombia. His victory brought decades of national yearning to fruition. Colombia has long been the only developing nation contending at cycling's highest level. Yet its cycling sons are not the products of a rigorous sports system that spots them in childhood and nurtures them through the ranks to the pinnacle of globalised sport. They come from harder backgrounds that surprise shock - even at times enchant.

Colombia Es PasiÃ³n! explores the lives and dreams of each of the nation's leading cyclists. Theirs are inspiring stories of overcoming poverty and violence sickness and corruption and achieving global sporting glory.

'Takes you into the heart of both a sport and a country. The journey is well worth the effort' Sunday Times
'Wonderful' Observer
'Remarkable a masterpiece' Never Strays Far podcast

Matt Rendell

MATT RENDELL survived Hodgkin's Disease and lecturing at British and Latvian universities before entering TV and print journalism. His first book Kings of the Mountains: How Colombia's Cycling Heroes Changed their Nation's History (Aurum Press 2002) was described in The Times as 'meticulous elegant and sensitive.' His Channel 4 documentary about sport in Colombia and Ecuador also called Kings of the Mountains was described in The Observer as 'a gem telling us more about the essence of sport in under an hour than a season's worth of Premiership matches.' He has written for the BBC ITV and Channel 4 including British coverage of the Tour de France and he edited The Tour de France Centennial 1903-2003 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003). The National Sporting Club named Matt Rendell 'Best New Sports Writer 2003.'>

Colombia Es Pasion!

Matt Rendell

Matt Rendell

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