Too much Cycling, too little history

I love the monuments, they are always marked on my calender each year and as someone who's really into cycling history it seems like this book would be the perfect fit but unfortunately despite there being historic facts like how the races got founded and started out in the beginning and how the races were shaped over the decades it all too soon goes into what feels like an passing stream of endless names and incidents there this rider did that but next year another rider did this and so on and even though this gives you some oversigth about past races and the victories I'd personally would have preferred it more if the focus would have been on fewer races but with more details of how the race went but so for me it all kind of dissapeared into a blur of names and more names and I often had to really focus on basically there I was in the race and which year it was and if Merckx was chasing me or if I was chasing him (this can be an audiobook thing though I never had this problem with any other audiobook before, even other history books)
A quick word to the updated 2nd edition: not much too say to be honest. The author added the last recent winners up to 2022 but this all comes across like a short appendix to keep the book up to date like in Pogacar attacked with 50km to go and won the race or and the bottom of the descent Stuyven suprised the front group with an attack and held on to the finsh - no more no less.
Overall if you're interested in the monuments and the racers who have won them I'd still recommend it and I will give it another try by reading the book instead of listening to the audio book version.

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