It all begins in fairly routine fashion from Hamiltonâ€™s apple-pie childhood to his junior racing days. Over the course of the book, Hamilton and his co-author Dan Coyle recount from start to finish a career through the madness of professional cycling, during one of the sportâ€™s most complex and blighted eras. That is the highly fitting final sentence of Tyler Hamiltonâ€™s autobiography, â€˜The Secret Raceâ€™. “Explosive.Â€œThe truth really will set you free.â€ “Explosive.”-The Daily Telegraph (London) “ ‘If I cheated, how did I get away with it?’ That question, posed to SI by Lance Armstrong five years ago, has never been answered more definitively than it is in Tyler Hamilton’s new book.”-Sports Illustrated the broadest, most accessible look at cycling’s drug problems to date.”-The New York Times “Loaded with bombshells and revelations.”-VeloNews The Secret Race is a courageous, groundbreaking act of witness from a man who is as determined to reveal the hard truth about his sport as he once was to win the Tour de France. This edition features a new Afterword, in which the authors reflect on the developments within the sport, and involving Armstrong, over the past year. For the first time, Hamilton recounts his own battle with depression and tells the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong. The result is an explosive page-turner of a book that takes us deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to win that they would do almost anything to gain an edge. Over the course of two years, New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. Former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world’s top-ranked cyclists-and a member of Lance Armstrong’s inner circle. The Secret Race is the book that rocked the world of professional cycling-and exposed, at long last, the doping culture surrounding the sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong.

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD.The Secret Race isn’t just a game changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. The book’s power is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity. “The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans.

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