the secret race review
But just weeks after Hamilton reached his own personal pinnacle—winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics—his career came to a sudden, ignominious end: He was found guilty of doping and exiled from the sport.From the exhilaration of his early, naïve days in the peloton, Hamilton chronicles his ascent to the uppermost reaches of this unforgiving sport. Everything else about your body is the same, except now you have better fuel. I was determined not to view Tyler H. as a sympathetic figure going into this book, but the candor and vulnerability he and Coyle show the reader are hard to resist. , and his experience shows. The kitty girls are finally out of the bag: a Younger heartthrob, a Riverdale bad boy and a stand-up comedian were the first three contestants on RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race. The figure of Lance Armstrong is polarizing in the cycling world and the world at large.
Could have been more focussed and too the point without all the personal feel good (for him) leftovers.
It was more like a big game of hide-and-seek played in a fest that has lots of good places to hide, and lots of rules that favor the hiders. Although the book fails at its primary goal, which is to invoke sympathy for all of the other dopers (they had to cheat to compete) and focus all negativity towards Lance (that JERK cheated!
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They were boring and 2. What strikes me is how pervasive the ethic of doping was throughout the Peloton.
More than just a story about Hamilton, "The Secret Race" weaves in all the significant doping scandals of the past 15 years. "Apex: The Secret Race Across America" is the story of the real Cannonball Run -- and very real Cannonballers. It was always apparent to me that Armstrong doped but what wasn't clear was how entrenched this was in the professional cycling culture. Of course, the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs is a hot topic, and the author, Tyler Hamilton was one of the good guys with huge talent and heart I remember watching on TV for years.I'm an amateur cyclist, but follow international pro racing with great interest. EPO granted the ability to suffer more; to push yourself farther and harder than you'd ever imagined, in both training and racing.” “People think doping is for lazy people who want to avoid hard work.
Having then read many other books on cycling it became obvious that to win, and do so on a regular basis drugs were necessary. is running a mob-like extortion racket against business owners who refuse, or can't afford to pay-to-play. Review. Not just because it would mean the shame of being exposed, or the loss of my team and contract and good name, or having to tell my parents.
Yes, The Secret Race is about Lance Armstrong, but it is more about Hamilton himself. I just finished reading the secret race and I have to say if you are a fan of professional cycling, then you need to read this book. Musial, Cory Welles.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful. "If it proves to be true, it’ll likely never be beaten," Johnson said on the day the 28-hour, 50-minute record was revealed. Tyler Hamilton, once one of the sport's top riders, reveals how doping quickly became a necessity to anyone hoping to compete at an elite level. The Secret Race didn't tell me much I didn't already know about bike racing's dark side but it did fill in some details. Once I'd read "From Lance To Landis" by David Walsh it became apparent that my hopes were being undermined. As someone who dreamed about doing what he did, my answer is "I don't know." Use the HTML below. He does a tremendous job of building up to that now famous question, "what would you do?"
In Matthew Cobb's Life's Greatest Secret, we learn that it was just one chapter of a far more interesting and continuing story.
Every repetition slightly paled me.What a gripping page-turner, this was by far the best biography I read about a sportsman, knowing it was written by an athlete himself (with the help of a co-writer) makes it extra special.
In the 2003 Tour de France, he finished fourth despite breaking his collarbone in the early stages—and grinding eleven of his teeth down to the nerves along the way.
They were boring and 2.
Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. For the first time ever, Hamilton recounts his own battle with clinical depression, speaks frankly about the agonizing choices that go along with the decision to compete at a world-class level, and tells the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong.A journey into the heart of a never-before-seen world,
That might be true in some cases, but in mine, as with many riders I knew, it was precisely the opposite. I would have given more than 5 stars if there was an option. APEX: The Secret Race Across America is a documentary film that takes viewers on a fast-paced ride through the illegal, underground world of U.S. …
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