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The Secret Competition is a definitive go through the world of professional cycling-and the doping concern surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong-by former Olympic silver medalist Tyler Hamilton and New York Times best-selling publisher Daniel Coyle. Over the course of two years, Coyle conducted more than 200 hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke candidly with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result can be an explosive e book that calls for us, for the very first time, deep in the shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unethical doctors, anything-goes team directors, and runners so relentlessly motivated to achieve success that they would do anything-and take any risk, physical, mental, or moral-to gain the edge they needed to win. Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world's best-liked and top-ranked cyclists-a brutal rival renowned among his peers for his uncanny stamina and epic tolerance for pain. Within the 2003 Travel de France, he done fourth despite breaking his collarbone in the early stages-and grinding 11 of his teeth right down to the nerves along the way. He started out his career with the U.S. Postal Service team in the 1990s and quickly increased to become Lance Armstrong's most reliable lieutenant and a member of his interior circle. For the first three of Armstrong's record seven Travel de France victories, Hamilton was by Armstrong's side, clearing his way. But just weeks after Hamilton reached his own personal pinnacle-winning the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics-his career came to a sudden, ignominious end: He was found guilty of doping and exiled from the sport. In the exhilaration of his early, naïve days and nights in the peloton, Hamilton chronicles his ascent to the uppermost reaches of this unforgiving sport. Within the mid-1990s, the arrival of a powerful new blood-boosting medicine called EPO reshaped the world of cycling, and a relentless, win-at-any-cost ethos needed root. Its subconscious toll would drive many of the sport's top performers to substance abuse, depressive disorder, even suicide. For the very first time ever before, Hamilton recounts his own struggle with clinical depression, talks frankly about the agonizing options that go with your choice to be competitive at a world-class level, and explains to the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong. A journey in to the heart of your never-before-seen world, The Solution Competition is a riveting, courageous act of see from a man who is as decided to show the hard fact about his sport as he was previously to win the Travel de France.
