Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.

Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.

by David Millar
Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.

Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.

by David Millar

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501133657
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 10/24/2015
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 376
Sales rank: 910,020
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword David Brailsford, CBE xi

Biarritz, 2004 1

Barcelona, 2009 4

1 My Early Years 13

2 The Mess 21

3 Flying Ball Bicycles 26

4 Chasing a Dream 40

5 "Quot?" 47

6 The Professionals 59

7 Childhood's End 71

8 Tow de Dopage 88

9 The VDB Show 97

10 19:03 Millar Time 110

11 La We en Jaune 122

12 The Fall of Dunkirk 130

13 2001: An Odyssey Begins 152

14 La Vida Dopado 158

15 My Personal Jesus 165

16 Chains and Rainbows 180

17 Game Over 192

18 Côte des Basques 202

19 Judge Dread 208

20 Shaken, Not Stirred 221

Terry Across the Mersey 233

21 Life in the High Peak 237

22 La Roue Tourne 251

23 Time Trials and Tribulations 262

July 2007 283

24 The Persuader 287

25 Keeping the Faith 309

July 2010 323

26 Dave the Brave 331

Acknowledgments 339

List of Illustrations 341

Index 343

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