{"product_id":"rodchenkov-affair-the","title":"Rodchenkov Affair, The","description":"***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***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the Financial Times''s ''Fifty people who shaped the decade''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"Ebury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57259502174543,"sku":"9780753553350","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780753553350_1-rodchenkov-affair-the.jpg?v=1773753781","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/rodchenkov-affair-the","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}