The Spin: What's the future of cycling and performance-enhancing drugs?

by Doug Kirk

Accusations and denials, liars and cheats, a fan can’t help but wonder where it’s all headed.It’s 2033 and bike racing has cleaned itself up after the 2012 Lance Armstrong blood-doping revelations. No pro has tested positive for twenty years. Out of the blue, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer antes up big money to sponsor a new top-level European racing team. Why? And why would it hire Edo, a very vocal reformed cheater as team director if it had anything up its sleeve? Who’s that eye-popping American woman chatting him up? And what’s the deal with that new kid’s pedaling? Answers lurk somewhere down the road for Freddie Mertz and his Pharmascrip teammates in a thought-provoking tale of European road racing culminating with Italy’s own three-week tour, the Giro d’ Italia.

375 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 22, 2013

About the author

Resides in Kalamazoo, Michigan.