Breaking The Chain
Drugs and Cycling - The True Story
$28.87
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2002
Summary
‘A moving and spirited account of lying and cheating on behalf of some of the biggest names in cycling’ - Independent.
On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police. In his car were the drugs the team needed if they were to have any chance of playing a competitive part in the 1998 Tour de France.
The car was searched, he was immediately arrested and so the story that has been undermining the sport of cycling since the death of Tommy Simpson in 1967,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224061179 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224061178 |
| Author: | Willy Voet |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2002 |
| Weight: | 106g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Yellow Jersey Cycling Classics |
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Critics Review
“A truly horrifying book” Time Out “The most vivid insight into the realities of a sport in which illegal drug use is not only tolerated, but a mundane fact of life” Observer
Willy Voet
Willy Voet has been involved in cycling at the highest level as a professional cyclist and team masseur for thirty years.
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