The explosive story of the scientist who ran the biggest doping programme in history. As seen in the Netflix Oscar-winner Icarus
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year,
2020The full story behind Oscar award-winning IcarusOne 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. https://news.williamhill.com/…year-winner/
Author Biography
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.