Everybody gets popped
David Runciman: Lance Armstrong’s Regime, 22 November 2012
The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups and Winning at All Costs
by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle.
Bantam, 290 pp., £18.99, September 2012,978 0 593 07173 1 Show More
by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle.
Bantam, 290 pp., £18.99, September 2012,
“... but even if EPO gave the top riders only a 5 per cent boost, that could be the difference, as Tyler Hamilton puts it, ‘between first place in the Tour de France and the middle of the pack’. But it would be a mistake to assume that most cyclists doped in order to give themselves a shot at ultimate glory. In many ways the biggest difference is not ... ”