Alisa's Reviews > It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

I read this shortly after it came out at the urging of my cousin who was in the midst of her first battle with breast cancer. She drew a lot of strength from what he went through and how he came out the other side, and as a close loved one of someone fighting the disease we all want to be inspired and encouraged by how sheer resilience and determination can contribute to healing and surviving. It was a great book. But then some years later we learn that Lance deliberately used performance enhancing drugs on his historic return to cycling, and covered up that use not just for the purposes of his sport but arguably from his fans in the cancer community. Well hell, now what am I supposed to think? When I first read this I was convinced his story was, you know, true. The cancer battle is real but I now question everything else he wrote. I will leave the rating as is because I found it compelling at the time. Perhaps now it should be categorized as a work of fiction, and that makes me very sad.