Journalist, Author & Storyteller
Paul Kimmage was born in Dublin in 1962. A talented cyclist, he was a double National Road Race Champion and represented Ireland at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. A year later, he finished sixth in the World Road Race Championships in Italy and, in 1986, he turned professional and completed his first Tour de France.
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In 1990, after four years as a professional, he became a journalist. A multiple Sportswriter of the Year in Ireland, he was shortlisted five times for Sportswriter of the Year in Britain and is a five-time winner of the Sports Interviewer of the Year award at the British Sports Journalists’ Association Awards.
He has written for the Sunday Tribune, Sunday Independent, Sunday Times, Observer, and Daily Mail. He has also presented a sports magazine programme for Setanta TV and was an analyst for Al Jazeera TV during the 2012 London Olympics.
His first book, Rough Ride, is widely acknowledged to be the most honest account of life in the professional cycling ranks and won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in 1990. In 2000, he was shortlisted for the same award for Full Time: The Secret Life of Tony Cascarino. In 2011, his fourth book, Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson, was the British Sports Book of the Year and the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year.