Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it allOne of the Financial Timess Fifty people who shaped the decade The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seenIn 2015, Russias AntiDoping Centre was suspended by the World AntiDoping Agency (WADA) following revelations of an elaborate statesponsored 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 statesanctioned coverup, the programme was masterminded by Grigory Rodchenkov.The Rodchenkov Affair tells the full, unadulterated story that was first glimpsed in Bryan Fogels awardwinning documentary and still continues to captivate and shock the world. Charting the authors childhood growing up under the Iron Curtain, his first encounter with doping as a 22yearold 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.

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: Ebury Publishing; Classification: JP; Weight: 344 g; Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 22

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