Okay folks, I finally got round to reading the book and I enjoyed it. I particularly liked the short chapters which fit in with my habit of reading late at night - read one or two chapters then put it to one side and go to sleep.
It is very obvious how talented Fignon was when you read the book. It's
I did this, I did that, I did the other, oh - I won the Tour de France at my first attempt ... Whoa - you did what! 
His love of the sport really comes across well, and then at the tail-end of his career how shocking the rise of EPO abuse was. What Fignon writes confirms exactly what super-climber Andy Hamspsten said at the time. The phrase
'turning donkeys into race horses' springs to mind!
Anyway, if you get the book, you will read all of this for yourself. Which brings me to the ... the draw for it.
I've automatically entered the unsuccessful members from earlier in the thread. So far we have ...
Would anybody else like to be added to that list? I'll draw the name from the hat on Wednesday evening and post the book to the winner as soon as possible after they have PMd me their address.
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