Descent: My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End
A BRUTAL PORTRAIT OF LIFE AT THE TOPAt age 20, Thomas Dekker was earning $150,000 a year-as an amateur bike racer. The next year, he turned pro and was soon swimming in more than $1 million as he established his place on one of Europe's wealthiest superteams.As quickly as he rose, though, Dekker found himself drowning in a corrupting shower of blood bags, drugs, prostitutes, and money, and cracking under the pressure to perform at a superhuman level.In this fast-paced, tell-all memoir, Dekker delivers a page-turning tear through one man's rise, fall, and redemption during cycling's EPO-fueled boom years. And Dekker is not alone: He names thos…
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Weitere Autoren: Zonneveld, Thijs (Gespielt)
- ISBN: 978-1-937715-80-9
- EAN: 9781937715809
- Produktnummer: 22957842
- Verlag: Velopress
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.0 cm 286 g
- Gewicht: 286
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Thomas Dekker is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose talent on the bike quickly took him to the top of the sport. He raced for The Netherlands in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, won two Dutch National Time Trial Championships, and captured victories in the 2006 Tirreno-Adriatico and the 2007 Tour of Romandie. He rode for the Dutch Rabobank superteam and then Silence-Lotto before a retroactively tested sample returned positive for EPO. In 2009, Dekker was suspended for two years for the drug violation, and it was later confirmed during Operacion Puerto that Dekker was among the clients of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. After his suspension, Dekker joined the American Garmin Development Team and rode for Garmin-Barracuda from 2012-2014. Dekker claims to have ridden clean for Jonathan Vaughters and he became a popular rider in the American peloton. He retired after an attempt on the World Hour Record in 2015. Thijs Zonneveld is a Dutch sports journalist and former professional cyclist. He covers the sport of cycling for Holland's biggest newspaper and serves as a commentator for Dutch public television. His work appears regularly in No.nl, Nusport.nl, and Wieler Magazine. Zonneveld received the award for the best Dutch sports journalist in 2016 for Descent.
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