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.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Grigory Rodchenkov
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Attribute
- Athletes
- Publication Date
- 2021
- Dimensions
- 12.6x19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780753553350
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