The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire
WH Allen, 2021. Paperback. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (5 x 0.8 x 8 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography and an index. 320 pp.
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ISBN: 9780753553350
The full story behind Oscar award-winning Icarus. In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following revelations of an elaborate state-sponsored doping program 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 program 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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