Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
The Rodchenkov Affair
- How I Brought Down Russia's Secret Doping Regime
- Narrated by: Andrew Byron
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
The Rodchenkov Affair
Buy Now for £12.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
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.
More from the same
What listeners say about The Rodchenkov Affair
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 12-08-20
great insight, not too technical in Russian doping
a detailed personal account and reflection on Russian doping through to 2019. not overly technical but insightful for those interested in the topic.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- MR DAVID SKEOCH
- 05-01-21
Brilliant
Fascinating insight into the dark and dangerous world of doping and the extraordinary lengths taken to cheat
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- steve mold
- 03-11-20
Excellent background to Icarus
Gives a great background to the documentary Icarus. Would be interesting if they did an extended version of Icarus with this additional story.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- MR J.
- 18-08-21
Had me hooked
Great book if you like’d Icarus, greater detail and well read, a very interesting man.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 22-01-22
Fascinating
I'd seen the film Icarus a few times but this gives a brilliant account of the lengths that Russia went to in order to achieve a highly sophisticated and elaborate doping regime. Dr Rodchenkov is a brave and honest man who hides no blame on his own part in this system but has paid a heavy personal cost to get the truth out. Brilliant.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Gordon
- 06-03-22
Lying Liars and the Liars That Tell Them!
I hadn't heard of the documentary Icarus so, when I watched it in Netflix, I was astonished by it and the protagonists in it.
This audiobook gives a first hand account of the story behind that documentary into the biggest sports doping the world is ever likely to see. I consider that it's told with honesty and in minute (and sometimes very technical) detail, and not without detriment to the author himself on occasion.
A fantastic, shocking and sometimes depressing account of the lengths that athletes, their coaches, their national organisations and even their States and leaders will go to, to win-at-all-costs.
As you'll gather, I highly recommend listening to this audiobook.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 16-08-21
A spectacular insight into doping in sport
Very interesting, had me hooked all the way through. A fascinating insight to doping and the Russian scandal. Highly recommended.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 28-08-20
Great listen
absolutely loved this book on the Russian doping scandal after reading David Walsh's book previously
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Holly
- 06-11-21
Amazing
I couldn’t believe what was going on behind the scenes. A great book that we'll read and write.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!