The secret race : inside the hidden world of the Tour de France : doping, cover-ups, and winning at all costs

Author

Tyler Hamilton

Call Number

• 796.620944 H221 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Bantam Books, c2012.

Physical Description

290 p. ; 25 cm.

Summary

Hamilton pulls back the curtain on the Tour de France and takes us into the secret world of professional cycling like never before: the doping, the lying, and his years as Lance Armstrong's teammate on U.S. Postal.

Contents

• The story behind this book / Getting in the game
• Reality
• Eurodogs
• Roommates
• Bad news bears
• 2000 : building the machine
• The next level
• Life in the neighborhood
• New start
• Life at the top
• The attack
• All or nothing
• Popped
• Novitzky's bulldozer
• Hide-and-seek
• The end-around.