Left to Right: John Inverdale, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle at the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2012.
The people have voted and the results are in. The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle is the first book selected for The Podium.
The Results were as following: The Secret Race – 40%, Feet of the Chameleon – 30% and Resurrection, Twirlymen and Open receiving 10% of the vote.
You can read the introduction to The Secret Race here (click Look Inside). From the very first page, Coyle (who wrote a book on Lance Armstrong called Lance Armstrong: Tour de Force in 2009) draws you with his own fascination with Lance Armstrong and the cycling world.
So what we have here is one of the most talked about cycling books ever. My understanding is Hamilton doesn’t attack Lance Armstrong, it’s the doping culture and the professional cycling world he wants to expose. Hamilton also talks about how he first started taking performance enhancing drugs, his struggle with depression and his famed pain threshold. ‘I’m good at pain. I know that sounds strange, but it’s true. In every other area of my life, I’m an average person.’
That’s it from me, no more to discuss on The Secret Race until we’ve all read it. Head on down to your local bookstore and pick up a copy now. Let’s join together on the road in our first peloton. Also, remember to check out The Tour Down Under which runs 20-27 January. http://www.tourdownunder.com.au/
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