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Descent - My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End (Paperback)
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Descent - My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End (Paperback)
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The Award-Winning, International Best-Seller "I have success,
money, women. I've been lionized by the public and the press. The
world is at my feet. I've spread my wings and here I am, soaring
above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has
already begun." At age 20, Thomas Dekker was already earning
100,000 a year--as an amateur bike racer. The next year, he turned
pro and his salary quadrupled then rose again to 900,000 as he
established his position as a super-domestique among Europe's
wealthiest superteams. The sport marveled at Dekker's rise as the
young racer set his ambitions on capturing cycling's biggest prizes
for himself. Before long, though, Dekker found himself corrupted by
money, dazzled by fame, and cracking under the relentless pressure
to perform at a superhuman level. In his tell-all book DESCENT: My
Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End, Dekker
reveals a sordid way of life full of blood bags, drugs,
prostitutes, and money. DESCENT tells the story of a yearslong
bender that exposes the brutal truth of his life as a professional
cyclist. And Dekker is not alone; he names those who fell with him
and those who aided in his downfall. In DESCENT, we take an
unflinching look at the European peloton as it roars through its
modern boom years--the height of the EPO era--and what we see is
shocking. You won't be able to turn away from this page-turning
read about one man's rise, fall, and redemption and what his story
reveals about professional sports.
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