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One-Way Ticket

Written by: Jonathan Vaughters, Jeremy Whittle - contributor
Narrated by: Jonathan Vaughters
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Publisher's Summary

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 listeners 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.

©2019 Jonathan Vaughters (P)2019 Penguin Audio
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What the critics say

"Part personal history, part confessional, One-Way Ticket is also a love letter to a beautiful, brutal, hopelessly corrupt, yet paradoxically pure sport. It chronicles Vaughters’s saga as an athlete, but there are many more layers to the story, and that’s what makes it essential reading for any cycling fan and for anyone who followed Armstrong’s rise and fall. It covers the deep history of American bike racing in a way that has never been done. And it’s an honest, unflinching look at cycling’s darkest era from someone who fully lived it." (Outside Magazine)

"Vaughters rewrites the book on cycling’s doping era. One-Way Ticket sheds new light on pro cycling's 'EPO era.'" (VeloNews)

One-Way Ticket offers a behind-the-scenes perspective of a complex man who, despite being scarred by professional racing, remains dedicated to the sport.” (Library Journal)

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This book is brilliant, told by the man himself it ads a bonus because it makes it so lively.

Brutally honest, a battle between right and wrong. With is heart on his sleeves he delivers all with no fear of being judge and make you think of what I would do in his predicaments.

Knowing cycling, THE PASSION for the sport, the up's and downs of pro level, one day you just face reality as immoral as it can be.

People love to point fingers at pro cyclists, but enjoy the show. Hypocrites we are all, loving one Racer and making it an icon and after that dropping him because of doping like we do not know what is going on? But yet still watch the races and think with a moral compass from our couch...

Thank you Jonathan to tell it like it is, not giving a shit about Lance. Seriously I am impress that not everyone realize that the addiction is not the drugs the addiction is cycling, survival and performing to the level needed to thrive in this complex environment that is the UCI pro peloton.

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