Racing Through the Dark
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Racing Through the Dark

Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.

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eBook - ePub

Racing Through the Dark

Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Touchstone
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781451682700

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Description
  4. About David Millar
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Foreword by David Brailsford, CBE
  9. Biarritz, 2004
  10. Barcelona, 2009
  11. Chapter 1: My Early Years
  12. Chapter 2: The Mess
  13. Chapter 3: Flying Ball Bicycles
  14. Chapter 4: Chasing a Dream
  15. Chapter 5: “Quoi?”
  16. Chapter 6: The Professionals
  17. Chapter 7: Childhood’s End
  18. Chapter 8: Tour de Dopage
  19. Chapter 9: The VDB Show
  20. Chapter 10: 19:03 Millar Time
  21. Chapter 11: La Vie en Jaune
  22. Chapter 12: The Fall of Dunkirk
  23. Chapter 13: 2001: An Odyssey Begins
  24. Chapter 14: La Vida Dopado
  25. Chapter 15: My Personal Jesus
  26. Chapter 16: Chains and Rainbows
  27. Chapter 17: Game Over
  28. Chapter 18: Côte des Basques
  29. Chapter 19: Judge Dread
  30. Chapter 20: Shaken, Not Stirred
  31. Chapter 21: Life in the High Peak
  32. Chapter 22: La Roue Tourne
  33. Chapter 23: Time Trials and Tribulations
  34. Chapter 24: The Persuader
  35. Chapter 25: Keeping the Faith
  36. Chapter 26: Dave the Brave
  37. Acknowledgments
  38. Photographs
  39. List of Illustrations
  40. Index