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  Bad Blood: The Secret Life of the Tour de France (Paperback) By (author) Jeremy Whittle

  

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  Short Description for Bad Blood For the author, there isn't much in life as spectacular as the Tour de France: sweat-streaked, taut and burnished athletes toiling across vast and ancient European landscapes, hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route. This title tells the story of his journey from unquestioning fan to Tour de France insider and confirmed sceptic.
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  • Publisher: YELLOW JERSEY PRESS
  • Published: 14 July 2009
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Events & Organisations | Cycling
  • ISBN 13: 9780224080231 ISBN 10: 0224080237
  • Sales rank: 25,882

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Full description for Bad Blood

• For Jeremy Whittle, there isn't much in life as spectacular as the Tour de France: sweat-streaked, taut and burnished athletes toiling across vast and ancient European landscapes, hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route. And then there are the riders: men of almost superhuman capabilities, men who have become his friends, men whose stories he has written day in day out for the past decade. But even the biggest fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith. Bad Blood is the story of Jeremy Whittle's journey from unquestioning fan to Tour de France insider and confirmed sceptic. It's about broken friendships and a sport divided; about having to choose sides in the war against doping; about how galloping greed and corporate opportunism have led the Tour de France to the brink of destruction. Part personal memoir, part devastating expose of a sport torn apart by drugs and scandal, Bad Blood is a love letter to one man's past, and a warning to cycling's future.