Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state. It is the single most important sports story of our time and it reads like a Cold War thriller. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. Episode 10 sees how the Russia saga has dragged on and on and is still in dispute at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. We also see how the various institutions of world anti-doping - the I.O.C. and...

Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state. It is the single most important sports story of our time and it reads like a Cold War thriller. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. Episode 9 takes us inside the world of doping and looks at the human damage it inflicts. Not just on those cheated but also on the cheats themselves. Coercion, health effects, abuse. It’s not obvious...

Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state. It is the single most important sports story of our time and it reads like a Cold War thriller. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. Revelations emerge from Grigory Rodchenkov's backstory. Plus we get one step closer to him in witness protection. For the first time, you’ll hear the whole story from 2012 to 2020 told by the...

Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state. It is the single most important sports story of our time and it reads like a Cold War thriller. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. Episode seven hears how doping mastermind, Grigory Rodchenkov, went public about Russian cheating at the London and Sochi Olympics - and swapped life in Russian for a US witness protection program....

It is the single most important sports story of our time and it reads like a Cold War thriller. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. Episode 6 shows how Lamine Diack, the boss of world athletics, conspired with the Russian state to protect their doping system. Diack is currently awaiting trial in a French court accused of corrupting the very sport he was sworn to protect. Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the...

It is the single most important sports story of our time and it reads like a Cold War thriller. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. With the bombshell revelations in the ARD doc, the IOC had to act. They commissioned Dick Pound to investigate the claims. We hear how he and Bavarian cyber-cop, Gunter Younger meticulously stood up almost every one. Yet they knew they didn’t have the whole story. Rodchenkov was the key....

It is the single most important sports story of our time and it reads like a Cold War thriller. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. German TV channel ARD broadcast a documentary alleging massive Russian doping at London 2012. Their key whistle-blowers are Vitali and Julia Stepanov. We get the inside track on how it came about and how the Stepanovs were sprung from Russia at the last minute. Bloodsport is the story of the...

It is the single most important sports story of our time and it reads like a Cold War thriller. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. In this episode we examine the curious history of the drug behind the doping scandal - an anabolic steroid called Oral Turinabol. Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state, its subsequent unmasking and the ongoing fall out amidst the power...

Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state, its subsequent unmasking and the ongoing fall out amidst the power play of nation against nation. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. In this episode athlete Greg Rutherford breaks ranks and journalist Martha Kelner hunts for Russian sources. It is the single most important sports story of our time and it reads like a Cold War...

Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state, its subsequent unmasking and the ongoing fall out amidst the power play of nation against nation. The Evening Standard's sports correspondent Matt Majendie tells the whole story from 2012 till now. Episode 1 takes us inside the war between dopers and testers at the London games. We’ll also meet key whistle-blowers Vitali and Julia Stepanov - currently in hiding in the US - and we’ll get our...

Introducing the story of the Russian state's doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics.