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Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar

By David Millar

Book information

Publisher
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Year
2012
ISBN
1409120384, 9781409120384
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (2516188 bytes)
Pages
368\0
Time added
2013-12-28 11:27:06

Description

By his eighteenth birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional contract. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically - he broke his heel in a fall from a roof after too much drink, and before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here, in a full and frank autobiography, David Millar recounts the story from the inside: he doped because 'cycling's drug culture was like white noise', and because of peer pressure. 'I doped for money and glory in order to guarantee the continuation of my status.' Five years on from his arrest, Millar is clean and reflective, and holds nothing back in this account of his dark years.

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