![]() ![]() "Its opening chapter would be scripted straight from the Raymond Chandler school of thriller writing (‘When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun') and begin not in 1962 with a baby boy and a kindly staff nurse at the Rotunda hospital in Dublin, but twenty-two years later when the boy arrives in Paris in search of fame and fortune. In his introduction to the 1998 edition of Rough Ride (in which the title lost its indefinite article), Paul Kimmage noted how his original intention for the re-issue of the book was that it would be re-worked in the style of a hard-boiled noir: ![]() It's the story of a sport so corrupted by its own mythology that it has lost all touch with reality and seems incapable of heeding the warnings given to it. And if that alone doesn't tell you what went wrong in our sport as cycling dragged itself into the twenty-first century then you really do have to read Hamilton's story. If David Millar's Racing Through the Dark is this generation's A Rough Ride then Tyler Hamilton's The Secret Race must be Breaking the Chain. Note: this review originally appeared elsewhere in 2012 Weaknesses: Hamilton is just trying to say he was never as bad as Lance Armstrong (for that matter, he was never as good, either) Strengths: More readable than the USADA report What it is: Tyler Hamilton's tell all tale of doping and deceit Author: Tyler Hamilton (with Daniel Coyle) ![]()
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