The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire

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***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all***
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In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following revelations of an elaborate state-sponsored doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Involving a nearly undetectable steroid delivery system known as 'Duchesse cocktail', tampering and switching of urine samples, and a complex state-sanctioned cover-up, the programme was masterminded by Grigory Rodchenkov.

The Rodchenkov Affair tells the full, unadulterated story that was first glimpsed in Bryan Fogel's award-winning documentary and still continues to captivate and shock the world. Charting the author's childhood growing up under the Iron Curtain, his first encounter with doping as a 22-year-old student athlete at Moscow State University, and his subsequent career working for the Soviet Olympic Committee, this breathtakingly candid journey reveals a rigged system of flawed individuals, brazen deceit and impossible moral choices.


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ISBN : 9780753553336 BY (AUTHOR) Rodchenkov, Grigory
PUBLISHER : Ebury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE : August 11, 2019
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : W H Allen
LANGUAGE : English AGE : General
WEIGHT : 400 g DIMENSION : 234 mm x 154 mm
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback


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