Pedaleando en la oscuridad
Sports and games, Biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
"A portrait of life as a professional cyclist by the author, an international champion of the sport, this candid memoir follows his rise as a young racing star, his fall to the pervasive influence of performance-enhancing drugs, and his subsequent… redemption. By his 18th birthday he was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour de France winner. A year later he had realized the dream and signed a professional contract with the Cofidis team, who also had Lance Armstrong on their books. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically; high on a roof after too much drink and too many sleeping pills, he broke his heel in a fall, and before anyone could utter the words blood booster, recreational drug use had tipped over into doping. Here, in this autobiography, he 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, he is clean and reflective, and holds nothing back in this account of his dark years." -- Provided by publisher