Bad Blood: The Secret Life of the Tour de France

Bad Blood: The Secret Life of the Tour de France

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Even the biggest cycling fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith Bad Blood is the story of Jeremy Whittle’s journey from unquestioning fan to Tour de France insider and confirmed sceptic. It’s about broken friendships and a sport divided; about having to choose sides in the war against doping; about how galloping greed and corporate opportunism have led the Tour de France to the brink of destruction.Part personal memoir, part devastating exposé of a sport torn apart by drugs and scandal, Bad Blood is a love letter to one man’s past, and a warning to cycling’s future.‘Whatever you think about doping, you must read this book … Well-balanced, considered, compelling’ RouleurShortlisted for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year

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Weight 0.171 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format
language1
Pages

240
Publisher

Year Published

2009-6-4
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0224080237
About The Author

Jeremy Whittle has been covering professional cycling since 1993. A former editor of Procycling magazine and the Official Guide to the Tour de France, he covers cycling for The Times and the Sunday Herald. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4, Radio 5, NPR and CNN and is the author of Yellow Fever (1998) and Le Tour (2003).

Whatever you think about doping, you must read this book … Well-balanced, considered, …compelling
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Deeply personal, engaging… nuanced, complicated

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