The Rodchenkov Affair
How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Empire
Published on 1. January 1900
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7535-5333-6 (ISBN)
Description
As Director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Dr Grigory Rodchenkov was at the forefront of global efforts to detect drugs cheats in sport. Yet he was simultaneously running the most elaborate doping scheme in history. As seen in the Netflix Oscar-winner ICARUS, this is the explosive story of the one man the Kremlin hoped would never talk about its quest to win at all costs.
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Dr Grigory Rodchenkov is the former director of Russia's national anti-doping laboratory, which was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 2015 for facilitating Russia's elaborate state-sponsored doping program. He helped develop and distribute banned performance enhancing substances for thousands of Russian sports stars from 2005 to 2015. He made headlines in 2016 as a whistleblower, exposing the extensive nature of Russia's doping program, leading to Russia's 2016 & 2018 Olympics bans. Rodchenkov is currently in witness protection in the US.