RIIS by Bjarne Riis, Lars Steen Pedersen, Ellis Bacon (Trans) ( 9781907637513 )

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Title:

RIIS
STAGES OF LIGHT AND DARK

By:

Bjarne Riis, Lars Steen Pedersen, Ellis Bacon (Trans)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1907637516

ISBN 13:

9781907637513

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Publisher:

VISION SPORTS PUBLISHING LTD

Pub. date:

14 May, 2012

Edition:

UK ed.

Pages:

320

Description:

The sensational autobiography of the controversial Tour de France winner and Team Saxobank owner/manager, Bjarne Riis

Synopsis:

In 1996 Danish cycling legend Bjarne Riis won the Tour de France. Eleven years later he called a press conference and confessed to taking performance-enhancing drugs in order to achieve the ultimate cycling triumph. In Riis, his sensational autobiography - already an acclaimed bestseller in Denmark and Germany - the notoriously private Dane bares his soul. From the shy, young daydreamer who fell in love with cycling as an eight-year-old, to the hardened, regular user of banned blood booster EPO. While never shirking the seriousness of his actions Riis does attempt to explain the pressures and attitudes within cycling at the time that let him down a dark path that he now condemns. Brutally honest and as furiously fast-paced as one of his breakaways from the peleton, Riis is a powerful insight into the life and mind of one of the sport's key figures as well as a window into the world of professional road racing. There are not many people who have been involved in cycling to the extent that Riis has over the last 30 years and readers will be surprised by how open the normally taciturn Dane has been in his autobiography.If you liked Fignon's We Were Young and Carefree this book will certainly appeal to you.

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Vision Sports Publishing Ltd

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