Breaking The Chain: Drugs and Cycling - The True Story
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Breaking The Chain: Drugs and Cycling - The True Story
By (Author) Willy Voet
Vintage Publishing
Yellow Jersey Press
1st July 2002
6th June 2002
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Drug abuse in sport
796.62
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
106g
Description
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 for over 30 years, was at last exposed. Cocaine, amphetamines, EPO, heroin - all these are now considered not optional but necessary, not to win but just to compete in the Tour de France. Details of how these drugs are obtained, mixed together to make cocktails, administered and concealed are all included in this graphic and uninhibited account.
Reviews
"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
Author Bio
Willy Voet has been involved in cycling at the highest level as a professional cyclist and team masseur for thirty years.
