Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.Simon and Schuster, 26.06.2012 - 368 Seiten WORLD-CLASS CYCLIST, Tour de France stage winner, and time trial specialist David Millar offers a vivid portrait of his life in professional cycling—including his soul-searing detour into performance-enhancing drugs, his dramatic arrest and two-year ban, and his ultimate decision to return to the sport he loves to race clean—in this arrestingly candid memoir, which he wrote himself. As a young Scottish expat living in Hong Kong with his father after his parents’ divorce, Millar showed early promise with mountain biking and BMX. Two wise local cyclists took him under their wings, encouraging him to concentrate on road racing. Millar proved a ready convert. Racing Through the Dark offers the winning account of his climb through the ranks—first as an amateur and then as a pro, riding for the French team Cofidis. Among his early triumphs were several stage wins in the Tour de France. From the moment Millar turned pro, he began to see hints of the unethical measures that many— maybe most—of the other pros were taking in order to race at the very tops of their games . . . and beyond. At first, he felt that he was immune to temptation, that he could win clean. But the ugly pervasiveness of performance-enhancing drugs and the seemingly universal attitude that condoned it began to corrode his willpower. Racing Through the Dark details his eventual capitulation, his subsequent arrest and two-year ban from cycling, and his remarkable comeback as a clean cyclist who is now doing his utmost to keep performance-enhancing drugs out of the sport he so loves. Filled with thrilling descriptions of the world’s most spectacular courses, Racing Through the Dark captures the pure joy of cycling and includes some of the most vivid accounts of racing ever written by a true insider. |
Inhalt
Flying Ball Bicycles | |
Chasing a Dream | |
Quoi? | |
The Professionals | |
My Personal Jesus | |
Chains and Rainbows | |
Game Over | |
Côte des Basques | |
Judge Dread | |
Shaken Not Stirred | |
Life in the High Peak | |
La Roue Tourne | |
Childhoods | |
Tour de Dopage | |
The VDB Show | |
1903 Millar Time | |
La Vie en Jaune | |
The Fall of Dunkirk | |
2001 An Odyssey Begins | |
La Vida Dopado | |
Time Trials and Tribulations | |
The Persuader | |
Keeping the Faith | |
Dave the Brave | |
Acknowledgments | |
List of Illustrations | |
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