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The Award-Winning, International Best-Seller
"I have success, money, women. I've been lionized by the public and the press. The world is at my feet. I've spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has already begun."
At age 20, Thomas Dekker was already earning 100,000 a year--as an amateur bike racer. The next year, he turned pro and his salary quadrupled then rose again to 900,000 as he established his position as a super-domestique among Europe's wealthiest superteams. The sport marveled at Dekker's rise as the young racer set his ambitions on capturing cycling's biggest prizes for himself. Before long, though, Dekker found himself corrupted by money, dazzled by fame, and cracking under the relentless pressure to perform at a superhuman level.
In his tell-all book DESCENT: My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End, Dekker reveals a sordid way of life full of blood bags, drugs, prostitutes, and money. DESCENT tells the story of a yearslong bender that exposes the brutal truth of his life as a professional cyclist. And Dekker is not alone; he names those who fell with him and those who aided in his downfall. In DESCENT, we take an unflinching look at the European peloton as it roars through its modern boom years--the height of the EPO era--and what we see is shocking. You won't be able to turn away from this page-turning read about one man's rise, fall, and redemption and what his story reveals about professional sports.
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"The most shocking doping memoir professional cycling has produced." -Daniel Friebe, British sports journalist
"A remarkable story of a fallen cycling hero."-CyclingReview.nl
"Brutally honest." -Cycling News
"It's been a long time since there was so much ado about a cycling book. It's a shock when you realize that a cyclist has a rock 'n' roll life instead of a monk's existence. It's time to read it yourself and judge it." -Racefietsblog.nl
"A staggering underworld of blood bags, testosterone patches, and injections. No one is spared." -Eric Palmen, BiografiePortaal
"Thomas Dekker has done something brave here: He has opened sutured wounds with the hope that the rot will dry up. And for that alone we should be thankful." -Erik Raschke, CyclingTips
"Let one thing be clear: For the average cycling lover, this is a hard confrontation with 'dirty' cycling." -Laurens De Greef, Bicycletta Read & Ride
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From doping to redemption, this is the controversial, internationally bestselling tell-all memoir from the golden boy of Dutch cycling, Thomas Dekker.
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- PublisherVeloPress
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1937715809
- ISBN 13 9781937715809
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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