The Program: Seven Deadly Sins - My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong - Couverture souple

Walsh, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1471152588 ISBN 13 : 9781471152580

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

The tie-in edition of the stunning new film, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Chris O'Dowd (Moone Boy, The IT Crowd) as David Walsh and Ben Foster (3.10 to Yuma) as Lance Armstrong. This book, previously published as Seven Deadly Sins, tells the thrilling story of Walsh's thirteen-year quest to prove that the world's most famous cancer survivor and cycling superstar Lance Armstrong had built his reputation on a lie.

From Armstrong's first Tour win in 1999, Walsh was one of very few to question what we were seeing and, in his search for the truth, he was dubbed a 'troll' by the Texan cyclist and found himself ostracised by those who didn't want to upset the narrative that Armstrong seemed to present to a sport in urgent need of renewal.

Eventually, thanks in large part to Walsh's persistence, Armstrong was stripped of his titles, banned for life from the sport and forced into admitting to Oprah that he had, after all, been doping and that his seven Tour de France victories were little more than his seven deadly sins. It was one of the biggest sporting stories of the century, and the tale of how it came about is now the basis of a wonderful film.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Walsh is chief sportswriter for the Sunday Times and has won the UK Sportswriter of the Year title four times. For more than 12 years, he pursued the Lance Armstrong story, and wrote Seven Deadly Sins about it; the book was named Sports Book of the Century by the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards and turned into the film, The Program. Married with seven children, he lives in Newmarket. His latest book is The Russian Affair, about the Russian doping scandal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1471152588
• ISBN 13: 9781471152580
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
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• Personne responsable: non disponible