The Rodchenkov Affair - How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	W.H.Allen & Co Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2020
Authors:	Grigory Rodchenkov
Dimensions:	234 x 154 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-7535-5333-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Sporting events, tours & organisations > Sports governing bodies Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Sports training & coaching > Drug abuse in sport Promotions
LSN:	0-7535-5333-3
Barcode:	9780753553336

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