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EP. 39 — The Dopey Doper with Ify Nwadiwe
Privyet, con-gregation! Ify Nwadiwe is on the pod this week to spill the Russian tea on an olympic doping scandal that gave Russian athletes a scandalous advantage at the Sochi Games. Plus some good old fashioned Nigerian internet scams!
Research by Sharilyn Vera
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/sports/russia-doping-sochi-olympics-2014.html
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-olympic-doping-whistle-blower-rodchenkov-a-jerk/29007755.html
https://www.newsweek.com/how-russia-got-away-doping-until-it-didnt-482709
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36833962
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/12/russian-doctors-athletes-evaded-doping-tests
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/18/russia-doping-scandal-five-things-wada-report
https://www.vulture.com/2017/12/icarus-bryan-fogel-russia-doping-scandal-olympics-netflix.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/russia-doping-rodchenkov/551183/
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