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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age, and though she was confronted with serious challenges including the death of her father and struggles with disordered eating, her prospects were bright. She won high school cross country championships in Minnesota, NCAA track and field championships at the University of Colorado, and when she graduated from college, Nike offered her a sponsorship deal. Alberto Salazar...
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Series
Dick Francis novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Jeff Hinkley is an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority. He secretly follows a banned racehorse trainer through the crowds at the Cheltenham Racing Festival only to witness a bloody murder taking place right in front of his eyes. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned in the first place -- the administration of illegal drugs to his horses? Then many more horses test positive for prohibited stimulants...
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English
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"The first in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, the phenomenal business success built on the back of fraud, and the greatest conspiracy in the history of sports. Lance Armstrong won a record-smashing seven Tours de France after staring down cancer, and in the process became an international symbol of resilience and courage. In a sport constantly dogged by blood-doping scandals, he seemed above the fray. Then, in January 2013, the legend...
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Series
Savannah Reid mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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In this cozy mystery sequel to Killer Honeymoon, a plus-size PI investigates when someone tanks the star of Hollywood's latest superhero action film.
PI Savannah Reid gets a taste of the high life when she attends a Hollywood premiere on the arm of husband Dirk Coulter. Savannah may be a newlywed but even she gets weak in the knees when she meets celebrity athlete-turned-movie-star Jason Tyrone. So imagine how she feels when
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Publisher
Velopress
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage. Today, though, athletes are vilified for using performance-enhancing drugs. Damned as moral deviants who shred the fair-play fabric, dopers are an affront to the athletes who don't take...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind meets Christopher McDougall's Born to Run in this immersive, investigative look at the hidden culture of cannabis use among elite athletes (as well as weekend warriors)--and the surprising emerging science behind the elusive, exhilarating "runner's high" they all seek"--
The link between performance enhancement and cannabis has been an open secret for many years. The wide-sweeping national legalization of...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Draws on interviews with more than one hundred people close to the famous athlete to chronicle fourteen critical years in his career, from his cancer recovery to his precipitous fall after revelations about his systemic doping became public.
10) Screwball
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Language
English
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Recounting the high-profile doping scandal that rocked Major League Baseball, SCREWBALL takes us into the surreal Miami underworld that provided performance-enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez and other star players. Steroid peddler Anthony Bosch's medical credentials may be lacking, his storytelling skills are first rate as he hilariously details the rise and fall of his "health clinic", including mob connections, financial chicanery,...
12) The DH
Author
Series
Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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Description
Embarking on a baseball season marked by his parents' divorce, Alex is confronted by unexpected rival Matt, a disgraced athlete who has been given another chance after taking steroids and who wants to steal the affections of Alex's crush.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sol and Liz are a couple on the cusp. He's a professional cyclist in the Tour de France, a workhorse but not yet a star. She's a geneticist on the brink of a major discovery, either that or a loss of funding. They've just welcomed their first child into the world, and their bright future lies just before them--if only they can reach out and grab it. But as Liz's research slows, as Sol starts doping, their dreams grow murkier and the risks graver....
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sports provide people around the world with unmatched entertainment, from the excitement of victory to the agony of defeat. Unfortunately, it also has become painfully clear that the agony of sports goes well beyond athletes losing games or competitions. Playing through concussions, the abuse of pain medicine, the use of performance-enhancing substances, and other health-related issues have become a constant reminder that being a professional athlete...
16) Playing through the pain: Ken Caminiti and the steroids confession that changed baseball forever
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
The powerful story of Ken Caminiti, who changed baseball forever as the first player to confess to having used performance-enhancing steroids
"The powerful story of Ken Caminiti, who changed baseball forever as the first player to confess to having used performance-enhancing steroids. In Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever, writer Dan Good seeks to make sense of MLB MVP Ken Caminiti's fascinating,...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Game of Shadows meets Shoe Dog in this explosive behind-the-scenes look that reveals for the first time the unsettling details of Nike's secret running program-the Nike Oregon Project. In May 2017, journalist Matt Hart received a USB drive containing a single file-a 4.7-megabyte PDF named "Tic Toc, Tic Toc. . . ." He quickly realized he was in possession of a stolen report prepared a year earlier by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Describes how stolen ledgers revealed how the Florida clinic Biogenesis of America provided performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball players, and discusses the resulting scandal and season-long suspension for Alex Rodriguez.
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