Breaking the Chain: Drugs and Cycling - The True Story Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Breaking the Chain: Drugs and Cycling - The True Story Book

The publishing of Breaking the Chain must surely rub salt into cycling's ugly wounds. The sport is still reeling from the explosion of controversy that was sparked by the arrest of Team Festina backroom staff member Willy Voet and his cargo of narcotics, on the Franco-Belgian border on July 8, 1998. The subsequent police investigation uncovered a drugs scandal that destroyed that year's Tour de France but Voet sensationally claims in Breaking The Chain, endemic cheating has been at the heart of the sport for years. Voet's role as team "pharmacist"--ferrying and administering the cocktails of performance-enhancing drugs--made him the invisible hand that shaped the fortunes of one of the sport's most successful teams and he spares little detail in relating how it was done. Step-by-step guides to the business of "charging" on amphetamines and testosterone, administering mid-race injections and the secrets of beating the dope tests, are revealed for the first time. .You slip the part of the tube fitted with the condom up the backside, inject clean urine up the tube ... cork it and stick it to the skin following the line of the perineum as far as the testicles ... this system was never bettered ... I used it for three years without any worries. This is an astonishing story and Voet's is an amusing, candid voice--strong on the thrills of cheating and on the horrors of being caught--but given the ongoing investigations, and that fact the Voet, along with other senior members of the Festina team, is living under the cloud of a suspended prison sentence, it is hard to gauge whether the author's version of events has itself been "doctored". He names specific individuals related to the Festina case but protects the identities of other cheats that he claims operated on the pro circuit and it remains to be seen whether the full story of the scandal has now been told. --Alex Hankin Read More

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    Written by an author who is close to the centre of the sport, this book discusses the revelations claiming drug abuse amongst participants in the 1998 'Tour de France'. Voet reveals how close the sport was to being totally destroyed by the regular use of cocaine, amphetamines, EPO and heroin.

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    On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police. In his car were the drugs the team needed if they were to have any chance of playing a competitive part in the 1998 Tour de France. The car was searched he was immediately arrested and so the story that has been undermining the sport of cycling for over 30 years was at last exposed. Cocaine amphetamines EPO heroin - all these are now considered not optional but necessary not to win but just to compete in the Tour de France. Details of how these drugs are obtained mixed together to make cocktails administered and concealed are all included in this graphic and uninhibited account.

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    Willy Voet, William Fotheringham (Trans)

  • 0224061178
  • 9780224061179
  • Willy Voet
  • 6 June 2002
  • Yellow Jersey Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 128
  • New edition
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