#162 Alex Perry
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Alex Perry is a non-fiction writer. He spent the last three years investigating Konstantin Grigorishin and the International Swimming League, FINA, and the IOC.
He is the author of The Good Mothers, The Rift, Falling Off The Edge, and Lifeblood, as well as several ebooks, and ghost-wrote Long Shot for Azad Cudi, a British-Kurdish sniper.
His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Outside, Harper’s, The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, Roads and Kingdoms, The Sunday Times magazine and others.
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01:00 The Plot to Kill the Olympics
01:45 Konstantin Grigorishin
03:55 Why are swimmers poor?
05:05 Doping Ban
08:20 Matt Biondi, Jason Lezak
09:10 Outside Magazine article
11:40 Fearful?
13:20 What about Konstantin?
15:00 Economic Problem
17:00 Image Problem
19:00 Konstantin meets Japanese team
20:00 What blows your mind?
21:33 Pierre the founder of Olympics
24:00 FINA court case
26:30 FINA pays out
28:00 Threatening Athletes
29:00 Australian Swimming Federation
30:20 Sebastian Coe
31:15 Club Career Centric
33:10 Sustainable
35:15 Liquidity
36:15 Konstantin banned from USA
39:00 What else is there?
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