Breaking the Chain Drugs and Cycling – The True Story by Willy Voet. Introduction by Gerard Knapp Cyclingnews has obtained online rights to publish extracts. Breaking the Chain: Drugs and Cycling – the True Story by Willy Voet, trans William Fotheringham pp, Yellow Jersey, £ The Rider. On 8 July Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police. In his car were the drugs the team needed if they were to have any.

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Voet eventually received a three-year suspended sentence and lost his job.
Imprisoned for sixteen days, sacked from the Festina team and ostracised from the sport to which he had dedicated his life, Wllly Voet at last was able to tell the truth. The Secret Life of the Tour de France. Please review your cart. Amazon Business Service for business customers. Through his work as a soigneur Voet came to learn about the range of drugs used by riders and the techniques used to evade drug testing.
Mar 18, Ericka rated it really liked it. A Dog in a Hat. Simpson died of heart failure, because of a combination of factors. Afterwards the sport tried to clean up, only to find that the riders had moved on to a more sophisticated regime It’s a first hand account of massive doping and drug taking by the Festina Team, among others, competing at the very highest level of cycling.
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Imprisoned for sixteen days, sacked from the Festina team and ostracised from the sport to which he had dedicated his life, Willy Voet at last was able to tell the truth. There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
See all 54 reviews. Would you like us to take another look at this review? Retrieved 2 March I wanted to read this book because it was written by one of the little guys. From the sublime to the criminal. Willy Voet born July 4, [1] is a Belgian sports physiotherapist.
Voet started racing bicycles at the age of 15 and enjoyed some success as a junior, winning around 20 races in total, and scoring a win against Herman Van Springel.

If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Special offers and product promotions From mountain bikes to cycle computers, find s of products in our bikes store. The highly organised web of soigneurs and doctors caused me to start questioning other sports namely football, where the financial gains are much larger.
If your into cycling breking you can’t go wrong if u buy this as it shows that doping does go on in cycling and it goes on all the way to the top although if your looking for one of the best books you can’t go wrong by buying “the secret race” brekaing Tyler Hamilton which is a must if your interested in what goes on in cycling.
This was not merely the social aspiration of a son of a Ghe miner, but a competitive drive that enabled Simpson to push himself beyond all normal limits of physical endurance and pain.
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See all Product description. A History of the Tour de France. The surprising ease of which drugs can be taken and are soon untraceable means that no professional sport is devoid of this problem and this unique insite will pull the wool from your eyes.
Some of it, also, as this intelligent, perceptive portrait brings to life, was down to his sheer charisma – the combination of a blunt, unaffected manner with a genius for astutely projecting the image he wanted. You can remove the unavailable item s now or we’ll automatically remove it at Checkout. Check date values in: With a long drive ahead, on not enough sleep, Voet had taken a vket of “Belgian mix” – a cocktail of “amphetamines, caffeine, cocaine, heroin, pain-killers and sometimes corticosteroids”.
This book gives an insight into chian notorious ‘Festina Affair’ where an unknown masseur was caught trying to cross the border with a car load of performance enhancing drugs. It was in breakkng wake of Simpson’s death that his great contemporary and rival, the five-times Tour winner Jacques Anquetil, remarked bitterly of the inhuman demands the Tour made of riders that anyone who expected them to ride “on mineral water alone” was an imbecile.
It’s a very short book, but significantly Voet manages to capture the culture of cheating, which helps answer how doping got and beeaking remained so out of control in the sport and in sports in general.
No real shock but interesting to read how they get away chajn it. He was arrested and the Festina cycling team was suspended from the race. That doesn’t detract from the interest of his own story but it did spoil the read a little. I chose this book as I have a keen interest in drugs I don’t know anything about cycling so I struggled a little but persevered. Showing of 54 reviews. I just hope that a decade later we are getting closer to getting doping out of cycling fhe or a little ways down the road.
The Voeet of Wall Street. His death provoked one of the first of the sport’s cyclical drugs scandals. Dec 06, D rated it it was ok.

Jeevan Jeyaratnam rated it really liked it Oct 16, To ask other readers questions about Breaking The Chain breakjng, please sign up. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Turning adversity to advantage, he penned this, the “inside story” of the drugs bust, and created a bestseller out of the scandal.
