After “From Lance to Landis” and “LA Confidential”, David Walsh talks about Lance Armstrong’s “Seven Deadly Sins”
Author of the books, “From Lance to Landis” and “LA Confidential”, David Walsh is all set to publish his third book with the title, “Seven Deadly Sins” on the former Team USPS team leader, Lance Armstrong.
The book is expected to be published on December 13th, 2012 and will include an in-depth examination of Lance Armstrong and his seven Tour de France victories, through 1999-2005.
The cycling governing body, UCI disqualified the cyclist from all those wins after USADA’s 1000 page report suggesting that he cheated to obtain those victories.
The 41-year-old has also been stripped-off from all his previous achievements through 1998 onwards because of systematic doping that went on for years and years in Team USPS.
As many as 25 cyclists admit to doping including 11 of former Armstrong’s teammates including Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, Tyler Hamilton, George Hincapie, Floyd Landis, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Christian Vande Velde, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie.
Walsh has faced criticism from the former American cyclist and has also been sued by him in the past for calling him a doper, but in fact Walsh was right after all.
"This has been the story of my working life," said Walsh to The Bookseller.
"13 years of striving to show the sports world that what I believed to be true was true”.
“Most of the time, I believed Armstrong would get away with it, but in the end the failings in his character that made him cheat and lie and bully caught up with him”.
"I've never felt vindicated because I've never needed vindication in my life. I was never sure of anything more in my life than that this guy and his team were doping and that was form the very first Tour in 1999," said Walsh.
The book will be made available before Christmas and the title “Seven Deadly Sins” was revealed through the social media website, Twitter.
He asked for the suggestion through the social media site and received several suggestions including, LieStrong, Extraordinary Proof, Not Normal, It’s Really Not About the Bike, The Legend of Blagger and Fifty Shades of Bullshit.
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