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Reddit mentions of The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France
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We found 5 Reddit mentions of The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France. Here are the top ones.
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| Release date | May 2013 |
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The Secret Race (Tyler Hamilton). It digs into the dirty side of the sport.
I spent a lot of time reading all the Lance Armstrong related books. The best cycling doping book is Tyler Hamilton's. He really explains the process well, but does a great job of helping you understand how mentally you get to the point where you dope. It's a great read.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Race-Inside-Hidden/dp/034553042X
Tyler Hamilton's book is a fascinating read, and helps to answer this question.
The blog post seems a little naive, really. Doping seems like more of an institutionalized thing than a "psst, buddy" thing on some street corner. Teams are pushed by sponsors and owners to succeed at all costs, they hire doctors with past history of success, and no one asks how that success came about until everything is in place.
Then you choose to go along -- or rat everyone out, get blacklisted, be unable to compete, possibly be forced to leave the sport you love forever. Not an easy choice to make.
This is true. "The Secret Race" is a killer book on this subject, as are the Competitor Podcast episodes where Bob Babbitt lays into him.
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Race-Inside-Hidden-France/dp/034553042X
I'm on adderall and marijuana ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't want to hear about doping on the TV Commentary. I want to read about it in an exposé