{"id":830747,"date":"2026-07-28T05:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830747\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:33:08","slug":"a-memoir-of-a-cyclist-who-won-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/830747\/","title":{"rendered":"A memoir of a cyclist who won nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestique: The True Life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro by Charly Wegelius.<\/p>\n<p>Tadej Pogacar won a record-equalling fifth Tour de France over the weekend. What better time, then, to read this 2013 memoir by a cyclist who won precisely nothing? <\/p>\n<p>Cycling teams are built around ensuring one rider wins; teammates ride in front of the star for slipstreaming, set the pace on climbs, or even give up bike parts in case of a breakdown. Wegelius was one such \u201cdomestique.\u201d It is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.velominati.com\/book-review\/book-review-domestique-by-charly-wegelius\/comment-page-1\/\" class=\"_linkEmbed_1pt7l_31\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">must-read<\/a>,\u201d says the biking blog Velominati, and \u201cit is a pleasure to read a book about modern cycling that is not a drug expos\u00e9.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Domestique-Real-life-Ups-Downs-Tour\/dp\/0091950945\" class=\"_linkEmbed_1pt7l_31\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Domestique from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Domestique: The True Life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro by Charly Wegelius. Tadej Pogacar won a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-830747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}