Sentences with phrase «doping program»

Bryan Fogel's documentary Icarus played an important role exposing Russia's vast state - sponsored doping program, a scheme that recently prompted the International Olympic Committee to ban the country from the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The always - topical documentary category is likely to keep its crown as the newsiest bracket at the Oscars by nominating not one, but two features about Syria — festival favorite City of Ghosts, acquired by Amazon in a $ 2 million deal, and Last Men in Aleppo, winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize — as well as Icarus, an investigation into Russia's shady doping program (which should get a boost from the news that Russia has been banned from the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics), and Jane, a lyrical look at pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall, who spent years battling a scientific community that refused to take her seriously.

An experimentation with performance enhancing drugs connected Fogel with Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, a Russian scientist who has the goods on the country's doping program.

The remarkable video was taken on the approach to the How Russia's doping program went undetected at the Sochi Olympics but was eventually uncovered

Oral Turinabol was the key ingredient in the last known state - sponsored Olympic doping program, which propelled East German athletes to gold medals in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Russian athletes were at the center of a state - sponsored doping program that was revealed over the past year.

But conversely, the cold war led to the Soviet Union and its satellites developing a rigorous scientific approach to athlete improvement — an aggressive illegal doping program notwithstanding.

You've been a massive help in our #campaign into the doping program at Chelsea.

An anti-doping group is saying they have «insurmountable» evidence of Armstrong's involvement with a very sophisticated doping program during his cycling career.

When Russia's doping program came to light, Nikitina was banned and stripped of her medal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)-- only to be reinstated when the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned the ruling.

Not exact matches

As a way to combat the doping scandals that were destroying its sport, the cycling union in 2008 started an antidoping effort called the biological passport program.

The court, whose decision is final, said in a statement Tuesday that it had examined the cycling union's biological passport program as a part of Caucchioli's case and «found that the strict application of such program could be considered as a reliable means of detecting indirect doping methods.»

For a short time, cycling's biological passport program seemed to be on shaky ground when the Italian Olympic Committee last October cleared Pellizotti of a doping violation.

This behavior allows the material to be effectively programmed, like a computer, by the proton doping.

The court announced that it «found that the strict application of such [a] program could be considered as a reliable means of detecting indirect doping methods.»

Whatever the outcome of the first doping case stemming from the passport program, cycling has at least begun to restore its credibility with the anti-doping movement — WADA has been fiercely critical of the UCI's efforts in the past.

In 2007 the Informed - Choice program was established by HFL Sports Science, one of the world's leading independent third party doping control laboratories that has been undertaking drug testing for sports since 1963.

The Program is about Lance Armstrong's doping controversy and stars Ben Foster as the seven - time Tour de France champion.

The Program (2015): A by - the - book story about Lance Armstrong's doping scandal that suffers from the problem that plagues many biopics: namely, it operates with the understanding that we already know the real story (or most of it), so it doesn't work that hard to make the characters seem real or to make the emotional beats land with any sense.

This remarkable film, which shockingly stumbled on to the Russian Olympic athlete doping scandal, led to the banning of the Russian team from the Winter Olympics and resulted in the film's key subject and whistleblower, Grigory Rodchenkov, being put into a U.S. witness relocation program.

Too often biopics resort to apologizing for their prickly main characters, but The Program doesn't pull any punches, showing Armstrong threatening to ruin other racers» lives, threatening to sue those accusing him of doping, etc..

Looking to provide an in depth view of the Lance Armstrong scandal is «The Program,» an exploration of the shocking doping deception behind the Tour de France winner's success and the people who worked to uncover the truth.