Juliet Macur

The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall. In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be granted extended one-on-one access to the most famous pariah in sports. At the center of Cycle of Lies is Armstrong himself, revealed through face-to-face interviews. But this unfolding narrative is given depth and breadth by the firsthand accounts of more than one hundred witnesses, including family members whom Armstrong had long since turned his back on—the adoptive father who gave him the Armstrong name, a grandmother, an aunt. Perhaps most damning of all is the taped testimony of the late J.T. Neal, the most influential of Armstrong's many father figures, recorded in the final years of Neal's life as he lost his battle with cancer just as Armstrong gained fame for surviving the disease. In the end, it was Armstrong's former friends, those who had once occupied the precious space of his inner circle, who betrayed him. They were the ones who dealt Armstrong his fatal blow by breaking the code of silence that shielded the public from the grim truth about the sport of cycling—and the grim truth about its golden boy, Armstrong. Threading together the vivid and disparate voices of those with intimate knowledge of the private and public Armstrong, Macur weaves a comprehensive and unforgettably rich tapestry of one man's astonishing rise to global fame and fortune and his devastating fall from grace.

The Fall of Lance Armstrong

Cycle of Lies

The fall. Ascesa e caduta di Lance Armstrong

the fall of Lance Armstrong

Cycle of lies

A fly-on-the-wall account of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal – the greatest drama in modern sporting history by the New York Times cycling correspondent.

Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong

Juliet Macur, premiada repórter do New York Times, acompanhou durante quase dez anos a incrível trajetória de Lance Armstrong. O ciclista, que em 2006 atingiu o recorde de vitórias no exigente Tour de France, com sete títulos consecutivos, transformou-se num dos maiores párias da história esportiva após denúncias de que ele recorria ao doping para competir. Com a reputação em ruínas, abandonado pelos antigos patrocinadores e acusado de articular um grande esquema de uso de drogas para aumentar o desempenho, ele contou pessoalmente a Macur sua própria versão do caso. E a autora foi além: conversou com colegas de equipe e parentes de Armstrong e reuniu relatos de centenas de testemunhas para revelar a dimensão do escândalo que transformou o ciclismo mundial. E o furo mais impactante veio do homem que por um tempo foi o mentor de Lance e um de seus maiores amigos: J.T. Neal. Em seus últimos anos de vida, antes de sucumbir ao câncer, Neal deixou mais de vinte horas de gravações, em que registrou boa parte de sua experiência ao lado de Lance Armstrong, incluindo detalhes sobre o consumo de substâncias ilegais e a prática rotineira de doping. Em Circuito de mentiras, Macur revela em detalhes o sistema elaborado por Armstrong e imposto aos atletas de sua equipe. O resultado é uma trama rica e abrangente sobre a ascensão de um homem para a fama e sua surpreendente queda.

Circuito de mentiras: ascensão e queda de Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong und das Rad der Lügen: Juliet Macur, Sportreporterin bei der New York Times, liefert die erste umfassende Darstellung, wie das System Armstrong über Jahrzehnte funktionieren konnte. Kollegen, Kontrolleure, Sportorganisationen, Sponsoren, Medien und selbst die Familie – sie alle wurden von Lance und seinen Helfern belogen, betrogen und unter zum Teil massiven Druck gesetzt. Das Buch, das auf intensiven Gesprächen mit Lance Armstrong und zahlreichen Interviews mit alten Weggefährten basiert, enthüllt die Zusammenhänge des größten Dopingskandal der Geschichte und liefert das beeindruckende Psychogramm eines scheinbar vollkommen gefühlskalten Egomanen. Spannend von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite – nicht nur für Radsport-Fans!

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