Sneha Girap (Editor)

David Walsh (journalist)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
David Walsh

Role
  
Journalist

Movies
  
The Program


David Walsh (journalist) Lance Armstrong the Irish connection David Walsh

Books
  
Seven Deadly Sins: My, LA Confidentiel, KP: The Autobiography

Similar People
  
Pierre Ballester, Paul Kimmage, Lance Armstrong, Kevin Pietersen

Journalist david walsh gut reaction to lance armstrong interview the late late show


David Joseph Walsh (born 17 June 1955) is an Irish sports journalist, who is chief sports writer of the British newspaper The Sunday Times. He is a four-time Irish Sportswriter of the Year and a three-time UK Sportswriter of the Year. Walsh was the key journalist in uncovering the doping program by Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Service Cycling Team. Walsh was vindicated when Armstrong was stripped of all seven of his Tour titles, and banned from cycling for life, on 22 October 2012.

Contents

David Walsh (journalist) Emotional David Walsh Interview Exposes The Vileness Of

Journalist david walsh on lance armstrong s oprah interview


Career

David Walsh (journalist) David Walsh RSA Conference

Walsh began his career as a cub reporter on the Leitrim Observer, where he worked his way up to become editor at 25. He left the paper to join the Dublin-based daily the Irish Press.

David Walsh (journalist) David Walsh Episode 95 An Irishman Abroad

In 1984 he took a year out to cover cycling sport in Paris. Returning to his Dublin-based paper after that year he ultimately left in 1987 to work for the Sunday Tribune before moving onto the rival Sunday Independent four years later. Walsh joined The Sunday Times in Ireland in 1996 and began working on the story about doping in professional cycling shortly after moving to England in 1998.

David Walsh (journalist) I dont feel any guilt I really dont Irish journalist David

Walsh was the ghost writer for cricketer Kevin Pietersen's autobiography, published in October 2014.

Investigation on doping within cycling

David Walsh (journalist) Journalist David Walsh gut reaction to Lance Armstrong Interview

Referred to as the 'Little Troll' by Lance Armstrong, Walsh along with fellow Irishman and Sunday Times journalist Paul Kimmage, led the way in exposing the systematic doping rife within cycling, in particular the US Postal Team and its leader Lance Armstrong. Walsh revealed in the Sunday Times in 2001 after a two-year investigation that Armstrong was working with the controversial Italian doctor Michele Ferrari. Under the headline "Champ or Cheat?" The Sunday Times asked in 2001 why a clean rider would work with a dirty doctor.

David Walsh (journalist) David Walsh says Lance Armstrong interview with The Sunday Times is

Walsh's books on Armstrong include L.A. Confidentiel (2003 with Pierre Ballester), in which Armstrong's soigneur Emma O'Reilly revealed that she has taken clandestine trips to pick up and drop off what she concluded were doping products, From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France, and Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong (2012).

David Walsh (journalist) David Walsh cycling is cleaner after Lance Armstrongs fall but

Reacting to the confessions Armstrong made in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, broadcast on 17 and 18 January 2013, Walsh said that "the interview was fine in as far as it went, but it did not go nearly far enough, and even in as far as it went I was particularly disappointed that he didn't admit what might be called the hospital room admission from 1996". Walsh was also disappointed that Armstrong failed to “name names".

David Walsh (journalist) Irish journalist David Walsh on taking down Lance Armstrong I don

Before Winfrey did the interview, Walsh's Sunday Times bought a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune—Winfrey lives in Chicago—to suggest 10 questions she should ask. The Sunday Times lost a libel suit over Walsh's coverage and Walsh wrote in a postscript to his 10 questions in The Tribune: "The Sunday Times is seeking to recover about $1.5m (million) it claims he got by fraud. He used Britain's draconian libel laws against us".

David Walsh (journalist) Armstrong issues giant correction

Referring to the battle against doping in cycling sport on a global scale Walsh said in January 2013 in an interview with Global Cycling Network (GCN) that "cycling needs new leadership" and that Greg LeMond "could serve as interim UCI president in an effort to pressure Pat McQuaid to leave his post".

On 29 January 2013 the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said it is "dismayed" by the way cycling's global governing body has handled the fallout from the Lance Armstrong affair and accused it of being "deceitful" and "arrogant". John Fahey, the president of WADA concluded that "UCI has again chosen to ignore its responsibility" to cycling.

In October 2013 it was announced that his book Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong was to be adapted into a film entitled The Program, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Chris O'Dowd as Walsh and Ben Foster as Armstrong. The film was released in Autumn 2015.

References

David Walsh (journalist) Wikipedia