![]() His ability for expression and explanation was turned on the sport which he knew at the time to be responsible not only for some of the most inspiring feats but also for the deaths of around 20 young cyclists ‘whose blood turned to treacle at night’ as a result of the EPO drugs they were being given. When Kimmage called time on his professional career he did not go quietly. ![]() In between he experienced the high of performance enhancing drugs which he described in the documentary as enabling him to clear a metal fence by three feet and feeling no pain in getting through another day on the bike. Then within a year he was dropping out of the same race due to ‘low morale’ and hiding his face from intrusive camera’s on the team bus. There was clear joy on his fresh young face as a rider in the 1980’s, living his childhood dream by cycling in the Tour de France and doing so along his friend and countryman Stephen Roche. “Love it, hate it, love it.” Paul Kimmage has a tortured relationship with the sport of cycling and all the stripes on his back were exposed last night in an RTE documentary, Rough Rider, that at times lived up to its name for viewers. ![]()
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