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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.
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Juliet Macur is an award-winning sports reporter for The New York Times and a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism. She writes the Sports of the Times column and has written extensively about Lance Armstrong, cycling and doping. Her work has twice been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, daughter and Labrador retriever.
