A Book Review where I trash Lance Armstrong...
The Secret Race, By Daniel Coyle and Tyler Hamilton One of the best audiobooks i've listened to. I almost cried at the end of the chapter where Tyler had his best finish in the Tour De France. The world class athletes, whose entire lives lead up to a choice to dope and keep up with the peloton or do the right thing and risk their career and millions of dollars in earning potential. Those athletes were in an impossible situation. Until this book, I always wondered if Lance Armstrong deserved to get taken down like he did, considering so many other riders were doping. You couldn't win the Tour De France without cheating and cheating had always been a part of the race. I'd always felt that Lance deserved a little more punishment than other dopers, but questioned whether he deserved to lose tens of millions of dollars along with his career and his charity organization. I'd listened to Novitzki (sp, a public lawyer who investigated lance) and Lance himself on podcasts,...