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The Russian Affair - The True Story of the Couple who Uncovered the Greatest Sporting Scandal (Hardcover)
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The Russian Affair - The True Story of the Couple who Uncovered the Greatest Sporting Scandal (Hardcover)
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020
'Reads like a thriller, or even a spy novel...Walsh keeps you
gripped' Rosamund Urwin, Sunday Times 'A turbulent but ultimately
inspiring tale. The candour...is rare and gripping' Matt Dickinson,
The Times It was the story that shocked the world: Russian
athletics was revealed to be corrupt from top to bottom, with
institutionalised doping used to help the nation's athletes win
medals they did not deserve. But the full story of the couple who
blew the whistle has never been told - until now. When Russian
anti-doping official Vitaly Stepanov met the young 800m athlete
Yuliya Rusanova, for him it was love at first sight. Within two
months, they were married. But there was a problem - in fact, there
were lots of problems. She admitted she was doping and that
everyone else was doping, and she let him know that she came from a
dark place ... It could all have brought a very swift end to a very
hasty marriage, but gradually the Stepanovs began to realise that
whatever you did, the system in Russia was stacked against you. In
the end, the only ones they could rely upon were each other. Fully
aware of the risks they were taking, they decided to turn the
tables on those who had manipulated them and cheated the sporting
world. The result of their investigative work sent shockwaves
around the planet and led to Russia's athletes being banned from
world sport, while the Stepanovs themselves had to go into hiding.
The Russian Affair is a gripping true-life drama that at times
reads like a spy novel and at others like an epic love story. But,
at the centre of it all, is a quietly determined couple who knew
that if they stood together they could shine a light on a corrupt
system and bring it crashing to the ground.
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