Bad Blood
  • Published: 1 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780224080231
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99
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Bad Blood

The Secret Life of the Tour de France

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1 May 2010
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1 Jul 2009
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Shortlisted for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year - an insider's story of ten years following the Tour de France, and of how a sport has been corrupted by commercialism, scandal and drugs. Now revised and updated.

Even the biggest cycling fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith

Bad Blood is the story of Jeremy Whittle's journey from unquestioning fan to Tour de France insider and confirmed sceptic. It's about broken friendships and a sport divided; about having to choose sides in the war against doping; about how galloping greed and corporate opportunism have led the Tour de France to the brink of destruction.

Part personal memoir, part devastating exposé of a sport torn apart by drugs and scandal, Bad Blood is a love letter to one man's past, and a warning to cycling's future.

‘Whatever you think about doping, you must read this book ... Well-balanced, considered, compelling’ Rouleur
Shortlisted for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year

  • Published: 1 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780224080231
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Jeremy Whittle

Jeremy Whittle has been covering professional cycling since 1993. A former editor of Procycling magazine and the Official Guide to the Tour de France, he covers cycling for The Times and the Sunday Herald. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4, Radio 5, NPR and CNN and is the author of Yellow Fever (1998), Le Tour (2003) and Bad Blood (2008).

Praise for Bad Blood

Whatever you think about doping, you must read this book ... Well-balanced, considered, ...compelling

Rouleur

Deeply personal, engaging... nuanced, complicated

Scotsman

A warts-and-all portrait of a sport that has more warts than a sackful of toads

Daily Telegraph