On the cover The Brownlees were the first brothers to ever finish first and second in an individual event at the Olympic Games. Alistair was also runner-up in the 2016 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Read: Swim Bike Run on page 60.
Front cover image: Fell running with the Brownlee brothers on Otley Chevin. Photograph: © James Dodd www.jamesdodd.net
Mee t the Wr iters
Sarah Freeman
Dominic Bliss
Joe Shute
The Hunt for Holmes (page 122)
License to Thrill (page 36)
Jack of All Trades (page 28)
Sarah was born and brought up in Leeds. She pursued a long-held ambition to be a journalist and is currently Features Editor of The Yorkshire Post and editor of YP magazine.
Dominic is a journalist and editor writing on travel, sport and men’s interest. He has searched out polar bears in the Arctic, climbed peaks in the Dolomites and boxed with Amir Khan.
An award winning features writer for the Daily Telegraph and author of their expert travel guide to Yorkshire. Joe has a close affinity to the county, and moors.
James Ellis
Peter Cossins
Nick Ahad
Fire Your Imagination (page 54)
Hardest Place to Race (page 94)
Capital of Curry (page 76)
A journalist who specialises in the travel industry. Former Travel Editor and Deputy Features Editor of Metro and writes for most national newspapers.
A cycling journalist and writer since 1993. Peter has covered the Tour de France as well as most of the other major cycling events and is the contributing editor to Procycling magazine.
Nick was The Yorkshire Post Arts Editor for ten years. He continues to write for The YP as the paper's Theatre Correspondent. He also presents for BBC Radio Leeds.
Claude Duval
Tina Walsh
Mark Bailey
The Inside Track (page 104)
King of Carnivals (page 18)
Swim Bike Run (page 60)
Racing correspondent for The Sun for 47 years. A former Racing Journalist of the Year, he maintains a fierce enthusiasm for the sport but freely admits that his second passion is cricket.
Tina is a freelance journalist and copywriter who writes for national and international publications and clients such as the Guardian, TIME, Korean Air and easyJet.
Mark is a sport, health and fitness journalist who has interviewed the Brownlees multiple times for The Daily Telegraph, Men’s Health, The FT Weekend Magazine and Men’s Fitness.
Nick Hallissey
Elaine Lemm
David Parkin
Wainwright's Yorkshire Masterpiece (page 44)
Sweet Dreams (page 112)
That's the Spirit (page 68)
Nick first fell in love with Yorkshire when visiting his grandma. Today he’s the deputy editor of Country Walking, Britain’s best-selling walking magazine, and he’ll write about Yorkshire as often as he’s allowed to.
Voted one of the Top 50 Food and Drink Journalists in the UK by the Press Gazette, Elaine Lemm is a Leeds-born food and travel writer. She writes for many leading food titles.
Former Business Editor of The Yorkshire Post and Founder of TheBusinessDesk.com, he was the first British journalist to interview Arnold Schwarzenegger after he became Governor of California.
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