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The film premiered on January 20, 2017, at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it won The Orwell Award, a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award. [2] [3] [4] Its distribution rights were acquired by Netflix, [5] which released Icarus for streaming globally on August 4, 2017. [1]
A member of Russia's parliament, Vadim Dengin, stated, "The entire doping scandal is a pure falsification, invented to discredit and humiliate Russia." [ 257 ] After the Court of Arbitration for Sport turned down an appeal by Russian athletes, pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva wrote, "Let all those pseudo-clean foreign athletes breathe a sigh of ...
Rodchenkov was featured in the 2017 Netflix documentary Icarus, directed by Bryan Fogel. In Icarus, Rodchenkov describes his involvement in a conspiracy to help Russian athletes to beat doping tests in the Olympic Games. [48] On 4 March 2018, Icarus won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Rodchenkov later became a whistleblower and was featured in a 2017 Academy Award-winning documentary 'Icarus', providing testimony which ultimately led to the disqualification of Russian athletes ...
The discredited Moscow operation was shut down after Russia's state-backed doping scandal broke in 2015. When Valieva's sample was sent and when it arrived in Stockholm has not yet been stated ...
The country's doping scandal extends back to the 2014 games in Sochi. Russia reportedly swapped out dirty tests for clean ones at those games. Russia took home the most gold medals and led the way ...
On December 5, 2017, the International Olympic Committee announced its decision to ban Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics. [126] Rodchenkov's work is detailed in the Netflix documentary Icarus which includes a brief appearance by Walden discussing how Rodchenkov's life is in danger following his revelations about Russian doping. [127]
During the Netflix documentary film Icarus, that tells the story of the Russian athletics doping scandal, a rendition of the song sung by artist Genevoise is used to illustrate the heartache felt by Grigory Rodchenkov after he says goodbye to his wife and prepares to enter the United States Federal Witness Protection Program.