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xxiii, 296 pages illustrations (black and white), portraits 24 cm |
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Includes index |
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"The inside story of the Oscar® winner Icarus" -- dust jacket |
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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 |
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Rodchenkov, Grigory, 1958-
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Olympic Winter Games (22nd : 2014 : Sochi, Russia)
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Olympic Winter Games
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Olympiska vinterspelen
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Dopning
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Korruption
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Sport
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Idrottare
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Idrott och politik
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Doping in sports -- Russia (Federation)
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Sports -- Corrupt practices -- Russia (Federation)
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Athletes -- Drug use -- Russia (Federation)
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Sports -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Idrott -- politiska aspekter
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Ryssland
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Russia (Federation)
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| Classmark |
362.290887960947
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780753553329 |
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