Racing Through the Dark

The Fall and Rise of David Millar

David Millar

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English

Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
28 June 2012

Autobiography: sport; Cycling

By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he'd realised the dream and signed a professional contract with the Cofidis team, who had one Lance Armstrong on their books. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically - high on a roof after too much drink, he broke his heel in a fall and before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping.

Here, in a full and frank autobiography, David Millar recounts the story from the inside: he doped because 'cycling's drug culture was like white noise' and because of peer pressure. 'I doped for money and glory in order to guarantee the continuation of my status.'

Five years on from his arrest, Millar is clean and reflective and holds nothing back in this account of his dark years.

By: David Millar
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 273g
ISBN: 9781409120384
ISBN 10: 1409120384
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 28 June 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Millar was born in Malta in 1977. He has won stages of the Tour de France and Tour of Spain. He is now a part-owner of the Garmin-Chipotle team and a key figure of the World Anti-doping Agency's athletes committee. Jeremy Whittle's Bad Blood was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in 2008. He writes on cycling for The Times, Financial Times and L'Equipe. He has known David Millar for 15 years.

Reviews for Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar

Millar is never less than candid in a memoir that is part confessional, part catharsis. THE SCOTSMAN 20120630 His description of that agonising 2010 mountain stage, during which he scoured the depths of his soul while falling helplessly behind the rest of the field, deserves to stand among the great first-person accounts of sporting experience. -- Richard Williams THE GUARDIAN 20120707 His career almost destroyed by a doping scandal in 2004, the cycling champion faces his demons in this eloquent and revelatory memoir. Millar's gutsy slog to restore his reputation is inspirational. THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH SEVEN Magazine 20120805