Road cycle racing fans in the UK will know of Pippa York who, when known as Robert Millar, was one the Britain's outstanding professional cyclists in the 1980s, riding the Tour de France 11 times.
She has co-authored a book, published last week, 'The Escape, The Tour, The Cyclist and Me' with David Walsh, a leading sports journalist. The book chronicles Pippa's childhood growing up in the tough, working class Gorbals area of Glasgow in the 1960s and her struggles with gender dysphoria; her development to become a top professional cyclist, her disappearance from public life and a period of depression, her subsequent long transition to Pippa in the 2000s and her traumatic public outing by the press in 2007. She is now a happy and successful journalist, writer and television commentator.
Her fascinating story is interspersed with anecdotes from the journeys she made with Walsh as they followed the 2020, 2021 and 2022 editions of the Tour de France together in a car.
