He was arrested in October 2011 while trying to board a plane in São Paulo, Brazil, to Europe with 9 kilos of cocaine.

[3] Galabin Boevski made his senior international weightlifting debut at World Championship in Lahti, Finland in 1998.

He finished fourth in the total narrowly missing on a medal, but winning silver in the clean and jerk.

The following year he became both European and World champion in the lightweight class up to 69 kg in La Coruna Spain and Athens, Greece.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the lightweight class beating by 5 kg his teammate Georgi Markov.

His first world record was set on 16th of April 1999, at the European Championship in La Coruna, Spain - a total WR of 352.5 kg.

[7] In 1999 Galabin Boevski was awarded 1st place in the annual survey Bulgarian Sportsperson of the Year.

Boevski was arrested in October 2011, for possession of 9 kg of cocaine at the Guarulhos Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, on his way back from a tennis tournament for his daughter, Sara.

Until the end of his trial, Boevski maintained his position that he is absolutely innocent and is not a mule or a drug trafficker.

[15] The book was written by Ognian Georgiev, a sports editor for the daily newspaper Bulgaria Today.