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  • The Rodchenkov Affair

  • How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Regime
  • By: Grigory Rodchenkov
  • Narrated by: Andrew Byron
  • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (99 ratings)

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The Rodchenkov Affair

By: Grigory Rodchenkov
Narrated by: Andrew Byron
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***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
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Brilliant

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

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Excellent background to Icarus

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

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Had me hooked

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

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great insight, not too technical in Russian doping

a detailed personal account and reflection on Russian doping through to 2019. not overly technical but insightful for those interested in the topic.

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Fascinating

I'd seen the film Icarus a few times but this gives a brilliant account of the lengths that Russia went to in order to achieve a highly sophisticated and elaborate doping regime. Dr Rodchenkov is a brave and honest man who hides no blame on his own part in this system but has paid a heavy personal cost to get the truth out. Brilliant.

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Lying Liars and the Liars That Tell Them!

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.

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A spectacular insight into doping in sport

Very interesting, had me hooked all the way through. A fascinating insight to doping and the Russian scandal. Highly recommended.

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Great listen

absolutely loved this book on the Russian doping scandal after reading David Walsh's book previously

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Amazing

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

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