Cycling: The name Rudy Pevenage is familiar to many cycling fans. Although the Belgian was also a very successful professional cyclist, most people still know him as Jan Ullrich's personal advisor and sporting director of the Telekom team. He was active in the doping heyday in cycling. Now he packs in his book "Nothing but the Truth - Confessions of a Cycling Insider" about that time.
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Rudy Pevenage describes lies and strange methods
Looking back at cycling's past hurts. Back then, many fans were rooting for it, live in front of the TV or even right there on the side of the road. The duels between Jan Ullrich and Lance Armstrong electrified the entire sports world. But years later, that world collapsed. Cycling sank into the doping swamp. We now know about the doping practices of the time. More and more former participants are unpacking. How exactly this fraud was organized and carried out is now described in his book Rudy Pevenage. The Belgian used to be a professional cyclist himself and was known as Jan Ullrich's supervisor from 1995 to the end of 2006. His biography "Nothing but the Truth - Confessions of a Cycling Insider" will be published in German on June 10th by Delius Klasing Verlag. Already at the beginning of the year the book was called "The Rudy" published in Dutch.
Rudy Pevenage in the foreword of his book:
“I'm no longer afraid of reactions or comments. I don't want to hurt anyone, but I'm telling the truth about what I went through and saw."
Ullrich & Pevenage were caught by a call to Fuentes
While many tell-all books only scratch the surface, Rudy Pevenage's 256-page biography seems to dig deep. On the first few pages, the reader first gets to know the young and talented Belgian, who later became a professional himself and celebrated notable successes. And then we get down to business. We're talking about blood bags in milk cartons and doping substances in double-walled coke cans. The narrow survival of raids and doping tests is more reminiscent of a crime thriller than a sports biography. And we also know the ending from the movies. Jan Ullrich was probably only caught because Rudy Pevenage happily called doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes after his protégé's victory - with his own mobile phone. A fatal mistake, because the Spaniard was already bugged. Strange that he of all people now praises Pevenage for his honest book.
Posted by Euphemian Fuentes on the book cover:
"Finally a book that tells the whole truth."
Competition: We are giving away "Nothing but the truth"
Rudy Pevenage describes in his biography - supported by John van Ierland and translated from the Dutch by René Stein - mainly his own career - from talent to professional career to doping offenders as a supervisor. For the German-speaking readers, however, the passages about the Telekom team and Jan Ullrich are of particular interest. And although here - as with almost every tell-yourself book by a perpetrator - one rightly asks oneself the moral question of whether one would like to increase his earnings by buying such a book, it is actually worth taking a look at this biography. Because many fans from that time are now receiving answers from Rudy Pevenage, which other people involved still owe to us today. A copy of "Nothing but the Truth - Confessions of a Cycling Insider" we are giving away in our competition.
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