![]() ![]() ![]() I don't think I ever imagined cycling was so dirty, well not until this book. I remember the Festina affair well and how the cyclists refused to race the following day. ![]() And since the 80's/90's have followed it religiously on C4 and then Eurosport. I have been a lover of the Tour De France since ITV's World of Sport showed it in the 70's. A world where it often felt like there was no choice. A world where the competition used every means to get an edge, and the options were stark. It's a world populated by unbelievably driven - and some flawed - characters. The result of this determination is The Secret Race, a book that pulls back the curtain and takes us into the secret world of professional cycling like never before. In a way, he became as obsessed with telling the truth as he had been with winning the Tour de France just a few years before. Over the next 18 months, Hamilton would tell his story - and his sport's story - in explosive detail, never sparing himself in the process. "It just feels so good to be able to talk about this. Postal, and his decade spent running from the truth. He finally wanted to come clean, about everything: the doping, the lying, his years as Lance Armstrong's teammate on U.S. But this time, Tyler had something else on his mind. The two had met five years before while Coyle was writing his best-selling book Lance Armstrong: Tour de Force. On a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner at a restaurant in Boulder, Colorado. Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2012. ![]()
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