This week’s guest is Sunday Times Chief Sportswriter David Walsh. This became a marathon interview stretching to almost two hours, so we’ve decided to release it over two parts.
Here’s the first part, in which we chat about his new book, The Russian Affair along with his fraught early days as editor of the Leitrim Observer. There’s plenty of chat about Lance Armstrong in this part along with a whole lot else, including David’s deeply poignant recollections of his late son, John.
We discuss two of David’s three picks in this episode: William Nack’s pursuit of Bobby Fischer for Sports Illustrated and Damien Relliot’s superb investigative story for L’Equipe, which proved Lance Armstrong took EPO on the ‘99 Tour de France.
We’ll play out part two next week.
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