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RandG
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Two hours show on drugs in cycling.
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listening to it myself
even bought a copy of david millar`s racing through the dark book off ebay for £7.72 about 30mins ago
, 9 copies left i think. 2012 Cannondale CAAD 8 1050 -
368 pages and you can tell that david millar is an intelligent guy............should be a great read and im looking forward to receiving my copy2012 Cannondale CAAD 8 1050
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Presenting it is Mark Chapman a football pundit.0
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Longershanks wrote:Presenting it is Mark Chapman a football pundit.
What's your point caller ?
Oh and he's a presenter, not a pundit.0 -
I've read the David Millar book - one word...great.
A very good insight (and very true) to the world of cycling and drugs.0 -
foxydan wrote:I've read the David Millar book - one word...great.
A very good insight (and very true) to the world of cycling and drugs.
I agree. It's about the best cycling book I've read.0 -
Just purchased the David Millar book. Going to listen to the the radio show in a day or two!0
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Millar's book is a great read, although I'd also recommend Bad Blood and Hamilton's new book.
Halfway through the BBC podcast and whilst there's nothing new, it's pretty well done for mainstream radio. Plus I could listen to Emma O'Reilly all night...0 -
Millar is the biggest hypocrite going and only bought out his book to clear his conscience. Cheating bar steward!0
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To dismiss Millar as a cheating bar steward is really to ignore what his attitude is since his comeback IMHO - he even, in his moment of glory as a stage winner in the 2012TdF, said he was an ex-doper, a statement which is him putting that nasty black mark against himself.
He acknowledges that he cheated, it was he that took the decision to dope - no-one put a gun to his head and made him do it but the culture was such that it doing that was not a big deal and didn't, at the time seem that wrong. Since then he's seen that really it scews you up, your pleasure at winning is gone - you are just doing what you should be doing since now you are on the same stuff as everyone else.
Hamilton has termed it - the 1000 days rule, 1000 days after turning pro a rider will have taken the fork in the road that is the decision to start doping, it is/was the culture that even if a rider starts as having high principles and determination to ride clean, so, so many make the decision that goes against what they set out to do which was to not cheat, not dope.
He is certainly not whiter than white - he doped, others of his era did not, but in a better environment he and others would not be lead astray so easily.0 -
Millars book was great, as a newbie to cycling it was interesting to read about the day to day life of a cycling pro and how drugs seemed to part of that day to day lifestyle.
What I found interesting was the fact he talks about Lance alot. Did he know something we didn't know until very recently?? Or was he like us and just amazed at how good he was?0 -
Try Rough Ride by Paul Kimmage too.0
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On iTunes now https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/5ls ... =1225387800
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Listened this avo.
I have to say, as a relative newbie to the scene, i found it shocking yet fascinating.
I just like pedalling!0 -
Of course, we know Millar is clean now because he tells us he is!
Wake up guys, he made a career out of doping then being anti doping.
Don't believe a word of it.0 -
Rodrego Hernandez wrote:Of course, we know Millar is clean now because he tells us he is!
Wake up guys, he made a career out of doping then being anti doping.
Don't believe a word of it.
And your evidence for that statement is what exactly?0
