| The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire Contributor(s): Rodchenkov, Grigory (Author) |
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ISBN: 0753553325 ISBN-13: 9780753553329 Publisher: Wh Allen OUR PRICE: $35.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Business Aspects - Political Science | World - Russian & Former Soviet Union - True Crime | Organized Crime |
| LCCN: 2021391779 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: ***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*** The full story behind Oscar award-winning Icarus One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' 'The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen' 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. |
