No more secrets
It was the book that exposed the truth behind the darkest and dirtiest era our sport has witnessed to date. The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-Ups, and Winning at All Costs was described by the New York Times as ‘the holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans’. The Sunday Telegraph called it ‘a gruesomely compelling instant classic’, and Outside magazine said it was ‘not just a game-changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. It’s the game-ender.’ It became a New York Times bestseller and won the coveted William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.
Tyler Hamilton’s autobiography, written with Daniel Coyle, was a big piece of the puzzle that revealed cycling’s biggest secret and uncovered one of sport’s biggest scandals. In it, Hamilton details his own doping during his racing career, and explains how Armstrong’s seven consecutive Tour de France titles were built upon a clandestine, systemic operation of lies, deceit and drugs.
‘I felt I could keep up without doping, but with it I could reach the pointy end of the peloton’
Whistle-blowers, subpoenas, federal court hearings and witness testimonies may have been
