Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar
David Millar
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Description for Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar
Paperback. The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir from the Tour de France cyclist who lifts the lid on his drug use and return to sport. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 314. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir from the Tour de France cyclist who lifts the lid on his drug use and return to sport.
By his eighteenth birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional contract. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically - he broke his heel in a fall from a roof after too much drink, and before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here, in a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409120384
SKU
KAC0003062
Shipping Time
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About David Millar
David Millar was born in Malta in 1977. He is a British road racing cyclist and the only British rider to have worn all Tour de France jerseys and one of four to have worn the yellow jersey. He is now a part-owner of the Garmin-Chipotle team and a key figure of the World Anti-doping Agency's athletes committee. ... Read more
Reviews for Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar
Millar is never less than candid in a memoir that is part confessional, part catharsis.
THE SCOTSMAN
His description of that agonising 2010 mountain stage, during which he scoured the depths of his soul while falling helplessly behind the rest of the field, deserves to stand among the great first-person accounts of sporting experience.
Richard Williams
... Read more
THE SCOTSMAN
His description of that agonising 2010 mountain stage, during which he scoured the depths of his soul while falling helplessly behind the rest of the field, deserves to stand among the great first-person accounts of sporting experience.
Richard Williams
... Read more