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Bookends

Bookends: Cycle of pain

14 July 2012

4:00 PM

14 July 2012

4:00 PM

Reg Harris by Robert Dineen (Ebury Press, £16.99) is about a man who was once Britain’s number one athlete: a professional cycle track sprinter who dominated the worldwide sport for 15 years.

And what is cycle track sprinting? It is racing on a prepared track with one or more opponents.

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