Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong - Hardcover

Walsh, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1476737118 ISBN 13: 9781476737119

Publisher: Atria Books, 2013

Synopsis

From award-winning journalist David Walsh, the definitive account of the author’s twelve-year quest to uncover and make known the truth about Lance Armstrong’s long history of performance-enhancing drug use, which ultimately led to the cyclist’s being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

The story of Lance Armstrong—the cyclist who recovered from testicular cancer and went on to win the Tour de France a record seven times, the man who wrote a bestselling and inspirational account of his life, the charitable benefactor—seemed almost too good to be true. And it was.

As early as Armstrong’s first victory on the Tour in 1999, The Sunday Times (London) journalist David Walsh had reason to think that the incredible performances we were seeing from Armstrong were literally too good to be true. Based on insider information and dogged research, he began to unmask the truth. Cycling’s biggest star used every weapon in his armory to protect his name.

But he could not keep everyone silent.

In the autumn of 2012, the US Anti-Doping Agency published a damning report on Armstrong that resulted in the American being stripped of his seven Tour victories and left his reputation in shreds. Walsh’s long fight to reveal the truth had been vindicated. This book tells the compelling story of one man’s struggle to bring that truth to light against all the odds.

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Review:

'Fascinating...a gripping tale of one man's determination' --Sunday Mirror

'One of the most powerful sports books ever written...a must-read for anyone with an interest in modern sport' --sportsbookofthemonth.com

'The best sports books are not about sport. They are about life, about people... this year's William Hill award underlines the great variety of approaches that modern sports writing can take... [such as] the revelatory investigation of David Walsh's pursuit of Lance Armstrong... the overall calibre of what gets published [in sports writing] has improved immensely' --Sport

'Not so much a valuable as an essential book for anyone interested in Armstrong, bike racing or doping' --New Statesman

About the Author:

David Walsh is chief sportswriter for the Sunday Times and has won the UK Sportswriter of the Year title four times. For many years, he was one of the few journalists prepared to question Lance Armstrong's record, and his account of that struggle was published in Seven Deadly Sins, which won the British Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year prize, was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize and later turned into the film The Program. He is also the author of Inside Team Sky, and he lives in Newmarket, Suffolk.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1476737118
• ISBN 13: 9781476737119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 426