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The Rodchenkov Affair

How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Regime

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The Rodchenkov Affair

By: Grigory Rodchenkov
Narrated by: Andrew Byron
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Brought to you by Penguin.

***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.

©2020 Grigory Rodchenkov (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Organized Crime Politics & Government Russian & Soviet True Crime World Russia Sports Soviet Union Crime

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I couldn’t believe what was going on behind the scenes. A great book that we'll read and write.

Amazing

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Gives a great background to the documentary Icarus. Would be interesting if they did an extended version of Icarus with this additional story.

Excellent background to Icarus

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Fascinating insight into the dark and dangerous world of doping and the extraordinary lengths taken to cheat

Brilliant

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I hadn't heard of the documentary Icarus so, when I watched it in Netflix, I was astonished by it and the protagonists in it.

This audiobook gives a first hand account of the story behind that documentary into the biggest sports doping the world is ever likely to see. I consider that it's told with honesty and in minute (and sometimes very technical) detail, and not without detriment to the author himself on occasion.

A fantastic, shocking and sometimes depressing account of the lengths that athletes, their coaches, their national organisations and even their States and leaders will go to, to win-at-all-costs.

As you'll gather, I highly recommend listening to this audiobook.

Lying Liars and the Liars That Tell Them!

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Great book if you like’d Icarus, greater detail and well read, a very interesting man.

Had me hooked

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