#162 Alex Perry

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. Enjoy! 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? DESTRO SWIM TOWERS: Save $150 per double swim tower by using the code "brett" at checkout!        SUPERIOR SWIM TIMING: Run a swim meet with ease from your laptop. SST is fully compatible with Hy-Tek and Team Unify as well as Colorado, Daktronics, and Omega touchpads. Tell them Brett sent you!       SWIMNERD PACE CLOCK GIVEAWAY: Brett is giving away 2x Swimnerd Pace Clocks on the first night of US Olympic Trials. tinyurl.com/swimnerd   SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS   Connect: Find | Brett Hawke On Instagram @hawkebr on Twitter @insidewithbh On Facebook @insidewithbh Find | Alex Perry On Twitter Subscribe & Listen: Apple Podcasts Google Spotify YouTube Produced by: SWIMNERD Supported by: Fitter & Faster