Cold Blooded Single eBook Jere Longman
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In October of 1996, Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with testicular cancer. The disease spread to his lungs and brain. Doctors gave him a 50-50 chance to live. Three years later, Armstrong recovered to win the first of an unprecedented seven consecutive victories in the Tour de France. He became a global hero who transcended sport. Then it all came apart. Armstrong was accused of leading the most sophisticated doping operation in elite sport. All seven of his Tour de France victories were nullified and he was banned from sport for life.
Jere Longman, an award-winning sportswriter for The New York Times and best-selling author, sifts through 1,000 pages of accusatory documents and provides a comprehensive chronology of Armstrong's undoing. He examines the pressures that cyclists felt to use performance-enhancing drugs, the pervasiveness and consuming use of banned substances and the debate about whether athletes who use these drugs should be vilified or accepted.
Cold Blooded Single eBook Jere Longman
When Lance Armstrong refused to answer charges from the US Anti-Doping Agency that he'd doped extensively through his career, he all but forced the USADA to put its cards on the table. And the USADA produced -- compiling a complete printed dossier on his career in doping (known as the USADA "Reasoned Decision,") along with hundreds of pages of supporting documentation and affidavits. The resulting "data dump" was extensive and devastating to Armstrong's claims of innocence. It's all available free on the USADA website, and worth reading if you're really interested in the case.But for a quicker read that pulls all the facts together in an organized timeline then this quickie e-book will do. It's concise, readable, and just tells the story of what happened during Armstrong's career, step by step. It relies heavily on the material in the USADA case documents, but since the author knows the sport, he is able to pull each bit of testimony about doping into context so the USADA testimony is understandable.
If you've followed the case in the news in detail, there's nothing new here. But I suspect a large number of people with a mild interest in Armstrong have gotten a little lost over the years in the bit-by-bit uncovering of Armstrong's doping, with each new revelation accompanied by denials, counterclaims, and attacks on witnesses. Finally, with the release of the USADA materials, there is enough solid testimony on the record to pull the story together in an organized way. If you're interested in a thorough yet streamlined account of how Armstrong's team indulged in performance enhance drugs, then this e-book is worth the modest cost and time investment.
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Cold Blooded Single eBook Jere Longman Reviews
Longman is lining up information in his book that you have heard and read way before he brought out this book and it seems nothing but a try to ride the wake of the Armstrong scandal to boost sales of this fragmentarium of facts glued together and written with no real intensity. That's the feel this book has a summary without plot or deeper message. Not worth reading.
Reading this book is fast and informative on the doping strategy at the Postal Service Team and, of course, Lance's. Perhaps the systematic doping in pro cycling is still out there with different names and teams. The point is that the athlete who put it on the mainstream, who attracted masses and the interest on watching and covering the Big Tours on ESPN, was part of that system. And I may add, with the best team that money could buy. I would love to read about those sponsor meetings with the big names, what did those contracts were about, how they have to deliver that show to the masses and, of course, sell A LOT of products in the meantime. Evil? Liar? No more than everyone involved from Ferrari, to the bus driver, the masseuse, to the team, to the UCI, the media who knew but remained silent just for the "hero story"; to his wife and girlfriends... when the party is on, everybody is the friend. When the cops come, no one is around and even preach about how bad he acted.
Let's be clear,this book is simply a summary of the USADA case, put in chronological order and with sufficient additional facts to make sense.
So if you have read every one of the pages of evidence, speculation and commentary about Lance Armstrong's cycling career then there will be nothing new here for you.
For the rest of us though, this is a great way of getting an overview of the case for the prosecution, without developing an obsession with the topic.
Conclusions?
It's hard not to find him guilty after reading this, especially when so much of it ties in with David Millars's story in "Racing Through the Dark". But whilst he doesn't come across as a particarly nice guy (or even in his own books for that matter) I'm left more with a sense of anger at how badly cycling's governing body failed to address the doping problem that it must have been aware of, than I am with disappointment in Armstrong himself. The evidence laid out here just suggests that Lance Armstrong both doped and competed better than his peers at the time.
Depressing? Sure. But I don't think it changes the fact that he was the best cyclist of his drug-ridden era.
Let's just hope the sport clearly has cleaned itself up, and we won't have to read a similar account about Wiggins or Cavendish in years to come.
Great writing, awesome history
Interesting and informative read. This book gives you an insight into what cycling was like within Lance Armstrong's cycling teams throughout his career.
Good if you don't have the time to read the whole reasoned decision by USADA. Interesting, well writen and informative.
The single item that got my attention the most was Lance Armstrong's reaction to the failure of his blood work to detect HCG. This hormone should have showed up as a precursor to testicular cancer, but his reaction is that now he had something to use against the people who screen for doping. This book is mostly a compedium of the doping evidence against Lance Armstrong. I, in fact, had not read about the controversy, so this was informative.
When Lance Armstrong refused to answer charges from the US Anti-Doping Agency that he'd doped extensively through his career, he all but forced the USADA to put its cards on the table. And the USADA produced -- compiling a complete printed dossier on his career in doping (known as the USADA "Reasoned Decision,") along with hundreds of pages of supporting documentation and affidavits. The resulting "data dump" was extensive and devastating to Armstrong's claims of innocence. It's all available free on the USADA website, and worth reading if you're really interested in the case.
But for a quicker read that pulls all the facts together in an organized timeline then this quickie e-book will do. It's concise, readable, and just tells the story of what happened during Armstrong's career, step by step. It relies heavily on the material in the USADA case documents, but since the author knows the sport, he is able to pull each bit of testimony about doping into context so the USADA testimony is understandable.
If you've followed the case in the news in detail, there's nothing new here. But I suspect a large number of people with a mild interest in Armstrong have gotten a little lost over the years in the bit-by-bit uncovering of Armstrong's doping, with each new revelation accompanied by denials, counterclaims, and attacks on witnesses. Finally, with the release of the USADA materials, there is enough solid testimony on the record to pull the story together in an organized way. If you're interested in a thorough yet streamlined account of how Armstrong's team indulged in performance enhance drugs, then this e-book is worth the modest cost and time investment.
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