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The Rodchenkov Affair

How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire

Grigory Rodchenkov

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W H ALLEN
20 July 2021
The explosive story of the scientist who ran the biggest doping programme in history. As seen in the Netflix Oscar-winner Icarus
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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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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.

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Imprint:   W H ALLEN
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 126mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   218g
ISBN:   9780753553350
ISBN 10:   075355335X
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dr Grigory Rodchenkov is the former director of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory, which was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 2015 for facilitating Russia's elaborate state-sponsored doping program. He helped develop and distribute banned performance enhancing substances for thousands of Russian sports stars from 2005 to 2015. He made headlines in 2016 as a whistleblower, exposing the extensive nature of Russia's doping program, leading to Russia's 2016 & 2018 Olympics bans. Rodchenkov is currently in witness protection in the US.

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

An extraordinary account of a decade-long quest by the USSR and then Russia to win by any means * Mail on Sunday * John le Carré meets Russian 21st-century interference. On steroids...extraordinary' * Nick Harris, Sporting Intelligence * A fascinating first-hand account of the biggest sporting scandal in history, and a worthy winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year * Telegraph * He was the doping kingpin who helped Russia's athletes top the medals tables. Then he blew the whistle. * Financial Times * An utterly incredible life story * Telegraph *


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