The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Russia’s Secret Doping Empire – Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020

**The full story behind Oscar award-winning __Icarus__****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__ ***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. ***Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020***The 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 TITLE PAGE 3 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 7 NOTE TO THE READER 8 INTRODUCTION 9 GLOSSARY 13 WHO’S WHO 16 PART I: APPRENTICE 18 CHAPTER 1 The Neophyte 20 CHAPTER 2 Learning the Trade 36 CHAPTER 3 Behind Enemy Lines 45 CHAPTER 4 Glasnost, or Things Fall Apart 52 CHAPTER 5 Meet the Witch Doctors 59 PART II: MASTER 69 CHAPTER 1 A Quiet Coup – Bespredel 71 CHAPTER 2 The Age of Miracles 77 CHAPTER 3 Time of Troubles 83 CHAPTER 4 Stumbling Towards Sochi 93 CHAPTER 5 In the Crosshairs Again 102 PART III: CONJURER 105 CHAPTER 1 Operation Sochi Resultat 107 CHAPTER 2 The Two-Front War 115 CHAPTER 3 Let the Games Begin 124 CHAPTER 4 ‘The Pipes Need Fixing Again’ 133 CHAPTER 5 Storm is Threatening 140 CHAPTER 6 The Secret Police Deserve the Truth 151 CHAPTER 7 The Bomb Explodes 157 PART IV: EXILE 165 CHAPTER 1 The Los Angeles Earthquake 167 CHAPTER 2 Going Public 174 CHAPTER 3 Welcome to ‘Unpersonhood’ 180 CHAPTER 4 Shelter from the Storm 185 AFTERWORD: The Never-ending War 191 APPENDIX: Operation Sochi Resultat, Step-by-Step 195 ABBREVIATIONS 201 INDEX 205 COPYRIGHT 216