Rupert Guinness is a Walkley Award commended senior sports writer who writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and who has covered 15 Tours de France. He is a former editor of Winning Bicycle Racing Illustrated magazine, European correspondent for VeloNews (USA) and a contributor to Cycling Weekly (UK) and Velo (France). He is also the author of six books on cycling including THE FOREIGN LEGION, TALES FROM THE TOOLBOX: INSIDE A PRO CYCLING TEAM and THE DEAN WOODS MANUAL OF CYCLING. Rupert, who lives in Sydney, also writes on rugby union and rowing and has covered two Olympic Games.