The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wh AllenISBN-13:9780753553329ISBN-10:753553325UPC:9780753553329Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Political Science, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Business Aspects, World, Organized CrimeBook Topic:Russian & SovietSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCV54MWYHE
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wh AllenISBN-13:9780753553329ISBN-10:753553325UPC:9780753553329Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Political Science, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Business Aspects, World, Organized CrimeBook Topic:Russian & SovietSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCV54MWYHE
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.
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