Bibliograph

Racing through the dark, the fall and rise of David Millar, David Millar

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Racing through the dark, the fall and rise of David Millar, David Millar

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Racing through the dark

Responsibility statement

David Millar

Sub title

the fall and rise of David Millar

Summary

By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and 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 and too many sleeping pills, he broke his heel in a fall, and before anyone could utter the words blood booster, recreational drug use had tipped over into doping. Here, in a full and frank autobiography, David Millar recounts the story from the inside: he doped because 'cycling's drug culture was like white noise', and because of peer pressure. 'I doped for money and glory in order to guarantee the continuation of my status.' Five years on from his arrest, Millar is clean and reflective, and holds nothing back in this account of his dark years

Target audience

adult

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