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#1 In 1981, I was 22 years old, and lying on a sofa in my family’s Moscow apartment. My mother, an attractive 54-year-old woman who had graduated from the First Moscow State Medical University, had drawn the contents of a 50mg ampoule of the Hungarian steroid Retabolil into a disposable syringe and injected it into my right buttock.
#2 I had asthma as a child. My parents personified the intellectual schizophrenia necessary for survival in communist Russia. My mother had lost her own father to one of Stalin’s purges, but she and my father never joined the Communist Party.
#3 I had discovered that I loved competing, and in my worst moments since then, I have drawn from my experience in competitive running. I had never grown up, and I still turned on the television and watched track and field events with the same sense of admiration as when I was a teenager.
#4 I was admitted to the chemistry department at Moscow State University in 1977. The university had the toughest curriculum in the country, and laboratory sessions dragged on into the night because we had to clean our labware before we were allowed to go home.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	17 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822514386
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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In 1981, I was 22 years old, and lying on a sofa in my family’s Moscow apartment. My mother, an attractive 54-year-old woman who had graduated from the First Moscow State Medical University, had drawn the contents of a 50mg ampoule of the Hungarian steroid Retabolil into a disposable syringe and injected it into my right buttock.

#2

I had asthma as a child. My parents personified the intellectual schizophrenia necessary for survival in communist Russia. My mother had lost her own father to one of Stalin’s purges, but she and my father never joined the Communist Party.

#3

I had discovered that I loved competing, and in my worst moments since then, I have drawn from my experience in competitive running. I had never grown up, and I still turned on the television and watched track and field events with the same sense of admiration as when I was a teenager.

#4

I was admitted to the chemistry department at Moscow State University in 1977. The university had the toughest curriculum in the country, and laboratory sessions dragged on into the night because we had to clean our labware before we were allowed to go home.

#5

I learned about a doping scandal in 1978, when five discus throwers, shot-putters and a pentathlete from the Eastern Bloc were stripped of their medals after testing positive for nandrolone. This news was never announced in Russia, Bulgaria or anywhere else behind the so-called Iron Curtain.

#6

The 1980 Moscow Olympics were a glorious chapter in Soviet history. However, as an athlete and budding chemist, I began to see a dark side to the Soviet sports machine. I learned about the sophistication of sport doping regimens.

#7

I was overtraining, and my coach told me that I was talented enough to avoid doping use. I decided to try anabolic steroids to see if they worked for me. I gained about three pounds of muscle after the third injection.

#8

I set off on a 13-mile evening run in a forest near our apartment. It was chilly, wet and cool, like a typical October evening, except it was still August. I speeded through the 13 miles in an hour and 16 minutes, vaulting over pools and not once slipping in the mud.

#9

I graduated from Moscow University in 1982, and like all young Soviet men, I headed straight into the army. I spent three months with a chemical and biological warfare unit 300 kilometers from Moscow. I was required to wear special hazmat gear and masks, and we would bomb around the local forests and swamps in military tank trucks filled with detoxicant and disinfectant.

#10

I was recruited by the Soviet Army as a professional athlete, but I declined. I loved being a student and had set my sights on a PhD. I began my graduate studies in a laboratory operated by the Academician Nikolai Semenov, who had been awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

#11

I longed to get back into running, but I needed a new coach. I was offered a spot on a coach’s team, but it required me to participate in his pharmacological programme, which cost me 100 roubles per month.

#12

I began selling Aponeuron, an East German appetite suppressant, to my teammates in 1985. I sold 45 boxes for 5 roubles each, and kept five for myself that would last me the rest of my running career. I was the only sports chemist in Moscow who had a specimen of this pharmaceutical steroid preparation.

#13

In 1985, I was 26 years old, and I hadn’t won any significant trophies or titles. I spent several months in training camps, and my body was getting stronger, but my dreams of becoming an elite athlete were slipping away. I realized that if I wanted to become an elite sportsman, I would have to completely abandon my family and quit civilized life altogether.

#14

In 1955, my mother was accepted into the Moscow Regional Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She left the provinces and joined the top ranks of Soviet medicine.

#15

I loved working in the laboratory at VNIIFK, although I started rattling some cages almost as soon as I arrived. I was amazed to learn that testosterone and the two anabolic steroids that I had been taking for three years, Turik and Stromba, were completely undetectable.

#16

Dr. Semenov was a unique personality of that time. He was a member of the IOC Medical Commission and had a warm relationship with its chairman, Prince Alexandre de Merode, and with the president of the IOC, Marquis Juan Antonio Samaranch.

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