About the book: year / "...The Russian team has always worried us from a purely geopolitical point of view. It always won, constantly, and in terms of the number of medals it was the first in all non-boycotted summer In the Games from 1972 to 1988, it was as if Russian athletes did not grow, but emerged from a generously funded sports machine - always already fully formed, stony, monolithic. Over and over again they brought the richest nation in the world, and also one obsessed with it, to its knees. sports - and this nation still cannot recover from that impression. "