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Lanced: The Shaming Of Lance Armstrong (2012)

by David Walsh(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

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Nonfiction

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The Sunday Times

review 1: So, I've read "Lanced: The shaming of Lance Armstrong" - by David Walsh and team...I remember that when the "Armstrong Affair"* happened I was so involved with other things that I couldn't pay attention properly.You see, my Godfather was fighting against an agressive pancreatic cancer when Mr. Armstrong was "discovered".Back in 2011 when we discovered my Godfather's cancer, I used to tell him about this man who had fought against this horrible monster and won. And that this man could, after the cancer, win 7 times the hardest bike race in the world. And, although, I knew that my Godfather didn't have much time left, I still believed in miracles, because Lance Armstrong was a miracle!So, when the Armstrong's Hell broke loose I was not paying attention to the media. I was li... moreving the life of the people who is helping a terminaly ill relative.I don't think that all the athletes in the world are "clean". Knowing the money involved in some sports, it's almost impossible to think that they don't dope.But, knowing that after suffering chemoterapy, this man, this ATHLETE, could use drugs that could make his cancer return with a vengeance, it was too much for me, someone who watched, day-after-day, a beloved one being pumped with chemicals that were killing the cancer, but also, killing the person.I read the book with this sentiment of great disappointment and anger. Furious, to say the the truth, with Armstrong, because he had a healthy body, and was wasting it, because of money and a piece of iron to put on his bookcase!I'm not worried here, about writing spoilers. It's impossible! It was all recorded, published, discussed, analysed to exhaustation.The book is a compilation of articles wrote, the majority, by David Walsh, a journalist who never "swallowed" the miracle story of Lance Armstrong and his triumphant return to the Tour de France!When you start reading the book, you think that these journalists are hunting Armstrong for no apparent reason, although, when you start putting together the little pieces of this puzzle, you realise that Mr. Lance Armstrong is a jealous, arrogant, prejudiced, selfish, and above all, lying man.Nothing, absolutely, nothing was prohibited in his journey to the top! And that made me think about the sports and athletes in general; "Is it true that nothing matters, only the victory?"My answer; I do not think so! But, who am I? A psychologist that doesn't have a singular athletic bone in her body!It is a good book. And you can notice, as you read, that it was made in a hurry when the scandal happened. The newspaper "The Sunday Times" was trying to get back some of the money they had to pay Armstrong along the years because of their articles, the same articles you have here in this book.I read the book in English in digital format. The book was not published here in Brazil.If you know just the basic about the "Armstrong Affair"*, like me when I started reading it, the book is a good choice. If you know a little more than I did, perhaps you can try other books of Mr. Walsh, he, being (almost) the only journalist who had the courage to publish his opinions about Armstrong, has wrote, at least, 2 more books about the "Armstrong Affair".* I don't know if anyone used this, but here I christened the wholly messy scandal!
review 2: Kudos to David Walsh for his passion and determination over the years. This collection of news articles, all published in The Sunday Times, shows that Walsh could smell this fishy mess long before it could be proven. His newspaper should be commended for printing Walsh's articles and supporting his cause despite the legal defamation suits that resulted.David Walsh is a true investigative reporter, the likes of which barely exists anymore. For more than 17 years, he pursued evidence of doping in professional cycling and he seemed to have his sights set firmly on finding fault with Lance Armstrong. All other publications and reporters gave up that angle and chose to write about Armstrong's domination of the Tour de France in a glorified manner, treating the 1998 Festina Affair as simply a bad year in an otherwise clean sport. Walsh never wavered from his view that cycling was corrupt and, as all other top riders of the Tour were proven dopers and hence fell from grace, Walsh maintained his belief that Lance was actively doping and was using his wealth and influence to control and cover up the trail of evidence. More interesting than the doping allegations is the character study of Armstrong. Truly a sociopath, Lance discarded all of his so-called friends, confidants, team members and lovers when they were no longer useful in his climb to the top, and their silence was bought through countless legal settlements that forced secrecy. less

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