One-Way Ticket
Nine Lives on Two Wheels
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3.9 • 8 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport's most towering figures.
Jonathan Vaughters' story is the story of modern cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown in Colorado to his unflinching rite of passage as a professional rider with US Postal to his elevation as one of cycling's most resilient, ethical and intelligent team bosses, the highs and lows of his career have mirrored those of the sport itself. Vaughters has had a front-row seat for most of the major events in cycling over the past three decades. He was both a former teammate of Lance and a leading witness against him. And he went on to renounce doping and start the first pro cycling team to dedicate itself to clean riding, which has grown into one of the most successful teams competing today and started a movement that has swept across the sport.
This is also not simply a story of races won and lost: Vaughters shows readers how he navigated the complex, international business of building Slipstream into a world-class cycling team. Over the past decade, he has led the sport out of the scandal-plagued Armstrong era. By presenting the world with a team made of talented racers built around a rigorous approach to clean racing, he set a new standard within cycling that has since spread across the peloton. Written from the unique perspective of both a racer and a team manager, One-Way Ticket gives the complete story of what it takes to build a winning team and repair the reputation of a sport.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Pro cyclist Jonathan Vaughters’ colorful memoir is filled with self-deprecating humor and laugh-out-loud anecdotes. But One-Way Ticket also tackles serious issues plaguing competitive cycling. As a young boy in Colorado, Vaughters quickly rose through the amateur ranks before becoming a disillusioned professional and eventually forming an antidoping cycling team that changed the conversation around the sport. Vaughters is up front about his complicity in the doping crisis that escalated during the 1990s and 2000s—we really felt the inner tensions that plagued him before, during, and after Team USA’s Tour de France scandal. The book is inspiring as we follow Vaughters’ struggle to regain a sense of personal integrity in the face of widespread corruption. It’s rare that a book tackling such heavy subject matter is so much fun to read.
