Descent: My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End

ISBN: 1937715809

Author: Dekker, Thomas

Condition: New

The Award-Winning, International Best-SellerI have success, money, women. Ive been lionized by the public and the press. The world is at my feet. Ive spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has already begun.At age 20, Thomas Dekker was already earning 100,000 a yearas an amateur bike racer. The next year, he turned pro and his salary quadrupled then rose again to 900,000 as he established his position as a super-domestique among Europes wealthiest superteams. The sport marveled at Dekkers rise as the young racer set his ambitions on capturing cyclings biggest prizes for himself. Before long, though, Dekker found himself corrupted by money, dazzled by fame, and cracking under the relentless pressure to perform at a superhuman level.In his tell-all book DESCENT: My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End, Dekker reveals a sordid way of life full of blood bags, drugs, prostitutes, and money. DESCENT tells the story of a yearslong bender that exposes the brutal truth of his life as a professional cyclist. And Dekker is not alone; he names those who fell with him and those who aided in his downfall. In DESCENT, we take an unflinching look at the European peloton as it roars through its modern boom yearsthe height of the EPO eraand what we see is shocking. You wont be able to turn away from this page-turning read about one mans rise, fall, and redemption and what his story reveals about professional sports.