The Rodchenkov Affair - How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire - Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 320 |
| Format | 12,6 x 19,8 x 1,9 cm |
| B-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 218 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780753553350 |
| Bestell-Nr | 75355335EA |
___Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all___
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.
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An extraordinary account of a decade-long quest by the USSR and then Russia to win by any means Mail on Sunday