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On the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 92% of 50 critics' reviews of the film are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "Icarus is eye-opening viewing for professional sports enthusiasts, yet it should also prove thoroughly gripping even for filmgoers who might not necessarily be drawn to the subject."
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.
Russian doping has been featured in several documentaries broadcast in Germany, France, and the United States: Geheimsache Doping: Wie Russland seine Sieger macht (The Doping Secret: How Russia Creates Champions), ARD / Das Erste, aired 3 December 2014 [22] Geheimsache Doping.
Ahead of the Paris Olympics, doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov says that athletes from Russia should be banned from the Games “forever.”
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"The Rodchenkov Affair: How I Brought Down Putin's Secret Doping Empire" outlines his account of how he helped Russian athletes who cheated by doping escape detection. Rodchenkov later became a ...
[3] [6] In 2014, the couple appeared in a documentary by Hajo Seppelt for the German TV network Das Erste, accusing the Russian sports system of large-scale doping fraud. Both said that Russian athletics officials supplied banned substances in exchange for 5% of an athlete's earnings and falsified tests together with doping control officers.
At the 2014 Olympics, Russia ran a sophisticated operation to cover up performance-enhancing drug use. Now, eight years later, it appears they may be following the same script.