Which is the best Jacques Anquetil book?

[[[[[[[ DRUGS SCHMUGS! Best
[[[[[[[ DRUGS SCHMUGS! Best book I’ve read on every other bike-racing topic but sodding drugs is Tim Hilton’s “One More Kilometre And We’re In The Showers!” Comprehensive, engrossing, and funny.
P.R.

not at all. you cant
not at all. you cant accidently stick epo in your body(imo should be banned for life it was his choice to CHEAT)also if i wanted to read his books i would borrow one from a library so not to expand his large bank balance

Seems a bit self-defeating don’t you think? You don’t see a difference between the likes of Amstrong who lied (and will probably continue to do so to his dying breath), and Millar and his ilk?

So then presumably you haven’t read the books by or about Paul Kimmage, Floyd landis, Tyler Hamilton, Lance Armstrong, Bjarne Riis, Marco Pantani (or for that matter Anquetil, Merckx etc)?

As someone already mentioned – this is the history of the sport. I understand your position, but I think you’re only excluding yourself from the richness of cycling’s story. Personally I only exclude anything that might profit Armstrong since it seems pretty clear that he is the worst and most unrepentant of a long line of serial cheaters…

If you read the book you’ll
If you read the book you’ll find out that he didn’t grass himself up. He confessed after being frog-marched out of a restaurant by the police (he was having dinner with a certain Mr Brailsford), back to his apartment in Biaritz, where he was sat on a chair at gun-point whilst his apartment was turned over. Eventually (it took hours) they found 2 empty EPO phials and 2 used syringes. He confessed a couple of days later. He says he’d already stopped doping at that point and he’d just kept these items as ‘souveniers’ (I struggle to believe this claim).

It’s a difficult one – on the one hand I see the opinion of not wanting to put money in a doper’s pocket. But, on the other hand, it is part of the history of the sport (as is the fact that Merckx tested positive 3 times) and if you want to learn about the personalities that have shaped the sport, and learn about life in the peloton through the various eras of cycling, then David’s book is a very relevant book from the ‘EPO era’, and a definite must-read!

Each to his own, I suppose.

No, but you can do something
No, but you can do something you regret, which makes it a mistake. Or at least, everyone else can, presumably (in order to occupy such high ground) you’ve never done anything you wish you hadn’t.

And while you are perfectly entitled to avoid furnishing DM with cash, you might find that reading his book will explain a few things.

not at all. you cant
not at all. you cant accidently stick epo in your body(imo should be banned for life it was his choice to CHEAT)also if i wanted to read his books i would borrow one from a library so not to expand his large bank balance