Riis

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In 1996 Danish cycling legend Bjarne Riis won the Tour de France. Eleven years later he called a press conference & 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 & 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 & attitudes within cycling at the time that let him down a dark path that he now condemns. Brutally honest & as furiously fast-paced as one of his breakaways from the peleton Riis is a powerful insight into the life & mind of one of the sports 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 & readers will be surprised by how open the normally taciturn Dane has been in his autobiography. If you liked Fignons We Were Young & Carefree this book will certainly appeal to you.