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Riis - Stages of Light and Dark (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Riis - Stages of Light and Dark (Paperback, UK ed.)
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In 1996 Danish cycling legend Bjarne Riis won the Tour de France.
Eleven years later he called a press conference and confessed to
taking performance-enhancing drugs in order to achieve the ultimate
cycling triumph. In Riis, his sensational autobiography - already
an acclaimed bestseller in Denmark and Germany - the notoriously
private Dane bares his soul. From the shy, young daydreamer who
fell in love with cycling as an eight-year-old, to the hardened,
regular user of banned blood booster EPO. While never shirking the
seriousness of his actions Riis does attempt to explain the
pressures and attitudes within cycling at the time that let him
down a dark path that he now condemns. Brutally honest and as
furiously fast-paced as one of his breakaways from the peleton,
Riis is a powerful insight into the life and mind of one of the
sport's key figures as well as a window into the world of
professional road racing. There are not many people who have been
involved in cycling to the extent that Riis has over the last 30
years and readers will be surprised by how open the normally
taciturn Dane has been in his autobiography. If you liked Fignon's
We Were Young and Carefree this book will certainly appeal to you.
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