The Rodchenkov affair, how I brought down Putin's secret doping empire, Dr Grigory Rodchenkov
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The Rodchenkov affair, how I brought down Putin's secret doping empire, Dr Grigory Rodchenkov
Language
eng
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illustrationsportraits
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The Rodchenkov affair
Oclc number
1190901974
Responsibility statement
Dr Grigory Rodchenkov
Sub title
how I brought down Putin's secret doping empire
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
Apprentice -- Master -- Conjurer -- Exile