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Bezig met laden... Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong (editie 2015)door David Walsh (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkMijn jacht op Lance Armstrong de journalist die toch gelijk kreeg door David Walsh
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I've just finished David Walsh's book - Seven Deadly Sins - on his long pursuit of Lance Armstrong. It's a superb, inspiring read with so many parallels to our own doping story (Rangers FC). This tale, at least, has a happy ending but we may have to be very patient as it took >13 years to nail Lance! The UCI come over very badly indeed - they were aware of the problems early on, covered up and tried to stick to their discredited script right up until the bitter end. For UCI, read SFA, SFL, SPL, SPFL - our governing body were aware of the (financial doping) problems early on, it was covered up and CO's EBT may well have effectively been a bribe. It certainly ensured that SDM had nothing whatsoever to worry about from that quarter. For the most part the journalists were too lazy to cover the LA story properly. The cycling journalists were too conflicted, the more generic sports journalists were not interested. The conflicts, as here, were on promises of access - toe the line or your access to Lance, to his team and to the sport will be adversely affected; by implication the journalists' livelihood is at risk. The cyclists themselves, the whole sport, was and perhaps still is wholly corrupted by the doping. Again, the riders were forced to toe the line (dope), keep to the script (don't grass up), or leave the sport. How difficult must it be for a talented bike rider to have to choose between the sport he loves and having to cheat to survive. There are, of course, differences. In Scotland unless we stick to the mandated, establishment script we must be anonymous. Any journalist who breaks ranks is vilified and eventually leaves the story or leaves his job. What I still cannot fathom out about our story is the motivation - of all of those who maintain the lie. It cannot be possible in this day and age that the BBC, the Herald, the Scotsman, the DR are populated & controlled by Sevco sympathisers. It cannot be possible in this day and age that all of these organisations are so afraid of the mob that they perpetrate the corruption and the lie. Well written account of the years that David Walsh tried to get the world to believe that Lance Armstrong's wins in the Tour de France couldn't be anything other than fraudulent, and that he was a drugs cheat. This book is really quite eye opening in relation to the lengths that Lance Armstrong went to to hide his cheating ways. I was really pleased for David that Lance finally came out and 'admitted' (let's face it - he had little choice!) that he had taken performance enhancing drugs on each of his seven Tour de France wins. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
De Ierse sportjournalist David Walsh doet verslag van zijn jarenlang onderzoek naar het gebruik van doping door wielrenner Lance Armstrong. Velen beschouwden hem als een medisch wonder toen de ex-kankerpati©±nt in 1999 zijn eerste Tour de France won. In 2012 bevestigde het befaamde rapport van de Amerikaanse dopingorganisatie USADA wat Walsh al jarenlang wist: Lance Armstrong heeft zijn zeven overwinningen in de Tour de France met behulp van epo en andere dopingproducten behaald. In dit boek beschrijft de auteur in detail hoe hij, ondanks voortdurende tegenwerking, door de jaren heen tot zijn onderzoeksjournalistieke conclusies is gekomen. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Armstrong took it to another level of usage, of legal suppression of
coverage & dominance of the peloton were fellow riders took drugs or got out of the system. ( )