The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Putin's Secret Doping Regime

By Grigory Rodchenkov

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075355335X
• ISBN13: 9780753553350
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Wh Allen
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"