Racing Through The Dark - The Fall And Rise Of David Millar

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By his 18th birthday David Millar was living & racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream & signed a professional contract with the Cofidis team, who had one Lance Armstrong on their books. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically -- high on a roof after too much drink, he broke his heel in a fall, & before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here, in a full & frank autobiography, David Millar recounts the story from the inside: he doped because 'cycling's drug culture was like white noise', & because of peer pressure. 'I doped for money & glory in order to guarantee the continuation of my status.' Five years on from his arrest, Millar is clean & reflective, & holds nothing back in this account of his dark years.