Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist and writer based in Spain. He writes regularly on cycling for the ¿I¿, The Independent.co.uk, The Express, ProCycling and Cyclingnews. He has been reporting on the Tour de France and other top road cycling events since 1992. His first book was The Eagle of Toledo, a biography of cycling¿s greatest ever climber, Federico Mart¿Bahamontes. He has also written Reckless, a biography of the ill-fated Luis Oca¿a, the 1973 Tour winner and considered Eddy Merck¿s top Grand Tour rival, and The End of the Road, an account of the 1998 Tour de France.