Discover more authors you'll love listening to on Audible. Plus detailed bike, kit and accessory reviews from the experts. 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. Denver airport makes Food & Wine's list of top 10 U.S. airports with best restaurants, Celebration of life for Alexa Bartell, killed by rock thrown through windshield, draws hundreds to Arvada church, Skier killed in avalanche near Breckenridge, With Andrew Cogliano out for rest of Stanley Cup Playoffs, Kraken's Jordan Eberle discusses hit that fractured Cogliano's neck, Avalanche's Stanley Cup defense sputters to end in Game 7 of first round vs. underdog Seattle Kraken, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. All the time, he bristled at the way some teams operated. By Melissa Mann 3 min read. Salesforce. The second time I met J.V., we were spat on. It worked: he got fastand became a contender in major races again. A professional cyclist from 1994 to 2003, he made headlines when he co-founded Slipstream Sports in 2005, based on his belief that there was a better way to run a cycling team. Jonathan Vaughters, CEO of the EF Education First pro cycling team, in Brussels for the start of the Tour de France, July 4, 2019. The original version of this article appeared in the November 16 2017 issue of Cycling Weekly magazine. No hes a cyclist, a cycling manager now. Then, with New York-based financial management executive Doug Ellis, Vaughters incrementally grew the modest organization based in Boulder, Colorado, into Garmin-Sharp, one of the UCI WorldTours most successful teamsa team that will be known as Cannondale-Garmin in 2015 after a recent merger with the former Italian-based squad. He had a successful season becoming US National Time Trial Champion, and was 3rd in the National Road Race. Now you read about athletes being paid 4 or 5 million euros a year, and that wasnt the case [seven years ago]. The 39-year-old recently admitted to doping during his own cycling career, including 1998 . Part personal history, part confessional, One-Way Ticket is also a love letter to a beautiful, brutal, hopelessly corrupt yet paradoxically pure sport. Vaughters says that Armstrong worked behind the scenes to torpedo the Slipstream project, luring away star riders like then teenageprodigy Taylor Phinneyand even trying to poach his chief backer. When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small commission. Meanwhile, Ellis had ambitions to send a team to France. He won the Mont Ventoux stage of the Critrium du Dauphin Libr in 1999 and 2001, and held the record for the fastest ascent until it was broken by Iban Mayo in 2004. His results let him make the jump from a crappy little Spanish team to a new outfit sponsored by the U.S. Im kind of the only person who can go all the way from connecting the mechanics to the people in accounting or vice versa. "People ask: have you doped? And you say no. Vaughterss anecdotes are vivid and often hilarious. And at one point I just texted him this all-in statement like, Are we doing this or not? I was in that hotel in New York and I gave my phone and my key to reception and I went out for this really long run across the Williamsburg Bridge and into Brooklyn. You are now subscribed. I feel for this hardened individual. Did he learn anything from the experience? You recently visited EF in Shanghai. A few weeks later, in the second stage of that years Tour, which Armstrong would eventually win, Vaughters crashed hard along with 50 other riders on the Passage du Gois, a cobblestone road that is submerged at high tide.
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