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

by Willy Voet (Author), William Fotheringham (Translator)

On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur 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. This title offers an account of how drugs brought cycling to its knees.

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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 included in this graphic and uninhibited account.