"The Chain Bradley Wiggins, (HarperCollins) The Tour de France winner's autobiography begins with him sneaking into his walk-in wardrobe and doing a line of coke off his Olympic gold medal: the final emblematic descent from his crowning summer of 2012. And yet for all the personal lows chronicled here addiction, self-harm, the collapse of his marriage, the haunting memories of his difficult father and of a coach who sexually abused him this is not your classic misery memoir."
"In a previous life Robert Millar was one of this country's greatest cyclists: a stern Glaswegian who won the King of the Mountains jersey at the 1984 Tour de France. Now known as Pippa York, she returns to the race in the company of the journalist David Walsh. It's a freewheeling, fascinating read that defies genre: part travelogue and part memoir, it dances between present and past, sporting observation and self-reflection, drugs that help you cheat and drugs that help you live."
"We know, on some bleak and buried level, that there are armies of fixers out there, trying to manipulate the sports we love. But we ignore it. We shrug it off. This book forces us to stare the devil straight in the eyes. A former professional footballer who after leaving Crystal Palace ended up as a kingpin organising fixes of lower-league games, Swaibu was a regular kid with a troubled upbringing who made a series of wrong but entirely logical choices."
Bradley Wiggins sneaks into his walk-in wardrobe and snorts cocaine off his Olympic gold medal; he endures addiction, self-harm, the collapse of a marriage, memories of a difficult father, and sexual abuse by a coach. Honesty and roguish humour accompany a journey of rediscovery as he confronts the toxic effects of elite sport and celebrity. Robert Millar, now Pippa York, returns to the Tour de France with journalist David Walsh, blending travel, past and present, sporting observation and self-reflection while examining both drugs used to cheat and drugs used to live. Moses Swaibu, a former Crystal Palace player, became a match-fixing kingpin in lower-league games after a troubled upbringing; ordinary choices and systemic vulnerabilities combine into a visceral true-crime parable for football.
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