Everybody gets popped
David Runciman: Lance Armstrong’s Regime, 22 November 2012
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.
Bantam, 290 pp., £18.99, September 2012,978 0 593 07173 1 Show More
by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle.
Bantam, 290 pp., £18.99, September 2012,
“... of multiple failed drugs tests. In the end, although a few athletes were caught (including the winner of the gold in the women’s shot put and an American judo competitor who blamed his positive marijuana test on eating the wrong cakes), the Games were more or less drugs-free. There were some dark rumours early on about the Chinese teenage swimming ... ”