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24%OFFEmma O´reilly - The Race to Truth: Blowing the Whistle on Lance Armstrong and Cycling's Doping Culture - 9780552171076 - V9780552171076
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The Race to Truth: Blowing the Whistle on Lance Armstrong and Cycling's Doping Culture

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Description for The Race to Truth: Blowing the Whistle on Lance Armstrong and Cycling's Doping Culture Paperback. When the author joined the US Postal cycling team in 1996, she could have had no idea how she would become a central figure in the biggest doping scandal in sporting history. This title tells the story of that time, and of the enormous repercussions that resonate to this day for Emma, Lance and the whole sport. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSDX; WSQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.

When Emma O'Reilly joined the US Postal cycling team in 1996, she could have had no idea how she would become a central figure in the biggest doping scandal in sporting history. Yet when Lance Armstrong, starting his comeback from cancer, signed for US Postal, it was Emma, the only woman on the team, who became his personal soigneur. This is the definitive inside story of that time, and of the enormous repercussions that resonate to this day for Emma, Lance and the whole sport.

Emma had the strength to break cycling's omerta by speaking out against the culture ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Corgi Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552171076
SKU
V9780552171076
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Emma O´reilly
Emma O'Reilly was born in 1970 in the working-class Dublin suburb of Tallaght. She trained to be an electrician before becoming interested in sports massage and therapy. Emma worked for the Irish national cycling team for three years and then for professional teams in the United States, joining US Postal in 1996. Confronted by a doping culture she despised, ... Read more

Reviews for The Race to Truth: Blowing the Whistle on Lance Armstrong and Cycling's Doping Culture
Impartial, honest, brave... the definitive account of those years.
Irish Examiner, Books of the Year
Fascinating.
Irish Times, Books of the Year
Of all the depictions of Armstrong over the years, this is the most empathetic, unrelenting in its depiction of the doping monster, yet ultimately it is also forgiving.
The Guardian
Balanced and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Race to Truth: Blowing the Whistle on Lance Armstrong and Cycling's Doping Culture


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