***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.
