CONTENTS

Foreword by Graeme Obree

1 A Very Welsh Childhood

2 Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Easy

3 ‘Team Cooke’ Go to Work

4 Fluke Win

5 ‘Too Young’ for Sydney

6 The GB Plan: Stop That Girl!

7 The Laurel and Hardy Support Team

8 First Taste of Italy

9 Triple Junior World Champion

10 Success in Italy

11 Running on Empty

12 Humbled by the Tour de France

13 World Cup Triumph

14 Under the Knife

15 Riding Under Athena’s Gaze

16 New Approach and New Goals

17 Living the Dream on Mont Ventoux

18 Unfulfilled Commitments

19 Rock Bottom

20 Defeat and Victory

21 Vision 1 Racing and Beyond

22 Exposing the Drug Cheats

23 London 2012

Acknowledgements

Index

List of Illustrations