Book description
Lance Armstrong's surprise announcement in 2008 that he would return
to cycling to raise global awareness about cancer prompted widespread
speculation about performance-enhancing drugs, the validity of his
past victories and his true motivations.
In Tour de Lance, Bill Strickland follows Armstrong's 2009
return to racing from January's Tour Down Under in Australia to the
Tour de France in July and asks what drives someone to step back into
the glare of the spotlight after walking away from adulation. Is it
ego? Is it boredom? Why is it that we love a comeback?
Strickland's second-to-none knowledge of the cycling world makes
Tour de Lance a compelling look at both the sport's complex
dynamics and one of the most celebrated - and controversial - cyclists
of our time.
Bill Strickland is the editor-at-large for
Bicycling
Magazine
, the world's largest cycling publication, and the author of
Ten
Points, We Might As Well Win
, which he co-wrote with Johan Bruyneel, and T
he Quotable Cyclist
.
