
The winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020 has been announced as Grigory Rodchenkov for ‘The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Putin’s Secret Doping Empire’. Rodchenko was the former head of Russia’s national anti-doping laboratory and he is in hiding ever since he helped expose the true levels of Russia’s doping problem. His book tells of his childhood in Soviet Russia before moving onto his time with the Russian Olympic Committee and his role in the scandal that has led to his country’s continued exile from many international sporting events including the Olympics. He wins a prize of £30000.