Book description
By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France,
sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour
winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional
contract with the Cofidis team, who had one Lance Armstrong on their
books. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically --
high on a roof after too much drink, he broke his heel in a fall, and
before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here,
in a full and frank autobiography, David Millar recounts the story from
the inside: he doped because 'cycling's drug culture was like white
noise', and because of peer pressure. 'I doped for money and glory in
order to guarantee the continuation of my status.' Five years on from
his arrest, Millar is clean and reflective, and holds nothing back in
this account of his dark years. David Millar has spent a decade at the
top of European road racing. He is a veteran of the Grand Tours, and is
the first Briton to wear the leader's jersey in the tours of France,
Spain and Italy. A gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games, he
currently rides for Garmin-Slipstream and lives in Girona, north of
Barcelona. Jeremy Whittle writes for The Times and the Sunday Herald. He
is the author of three books, including Bad Blood, shortlisted for the
William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in 2008, and lives in Sussex
with his family.
