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Descent: my epic fall from cycling superstardom to doping dead end

By Dekker , Thomas;Zonneveld , Thjs

Book information

Publisher
VeloPress
Year
2017
ISBN
9781937715809, 9781937716967, 1937715809
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
349 kB (357060 bytes)
Pages
213 pages ; 23 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1984-;Cyclists -- Netherlands -- Biography;NethCyclists;Cyclists--Netherlands;Doping in sports;BiThomas

Description

"At age 20, Thomas Dekker was earning $150,000 a year -- as an amateur bike racer. The next year, he turned pro and was soon swimming in more than $1 million as he established his place on one of Europe's wealthiest superteams. As quickly as he rose, though, Dekker found himself drowning in a corrupting shower of blood bags, drugs, prostitutes, and money, and cracking under the pressure to perform at a super-human level. In this fast-paced, tell-all memoir, Dekker delivers a page-turning tear through one man's rise, fall, and redemption during cycling's EPO-fueled boom years."--Back cover.

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