Sentences with phrase «of a doping scandal»

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea A second Russian athlete has tested positive for a performance - enhancing drug at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, a major blow for the nation's hopes of regaining its Olympic status and drawing a line under years of doping scandals.

February 23, 2018 • In the shadow of a doping scandal, Russian athletes, friends and fans are gathering at a hospitality venue during the Winter Games.

Not exact matches

Suspicions of a doping violation have rocked the Russian team, which have been trying to draw a line under years of drug - cheating scandals, and shocked the sport of curling, where steady hands and sharp eyes outweigh physical fitness.

A Russian Olympic medallist has left the Pyeongchang Winter Games on suspicion of doping, a team official said on Monday, in a scandal that has shocked his teammates and could imperil Russia's efforts to regain full Olympic status.

Bryan Fogel's quest to show how easy it is for athletes to dope (by doping himself) led to his stumbling across the biggest Olympic doping scandal of all time — and we're there for the entire ride.

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The effect of cycling's doping scandals was arguably most damaging in the United States, however.

Floyd Landis is best known for his 2006 Tour de France title - which he was later stripped of after his involvement in a major doping scandal.

Reading about Sakho getting caught out with doping scandal and I'm wondering about Leicester, it's probably unfair of me but I couldn't help wondering all the same.

The ruling comes on an difficult day for Lord Coe, who has been accused of withholding information to MPs over the Russian doping scandal.

Despite her fitness and mindset having been in question, with her coach Jama Aden embroiled in a doping scandal, Dibaba had still been considered the favourite ahead of the Games.

Gethsemane tells the story of corruption and scandal at the very top of a Labour government: fundraising by a flamboyant music mogul in return for unspecified rewards, a dope - smoking, gangbanging teenager and a HomeSecretary with a dodgy businessman for a husband.

In a surprise move, the doc jury also invented a new trophy, which they dubbed the «Orwell Award» (for an era of «post-truth, double - speak, and alternative facts») and presented to Bryan Fogel's «Icarus,» about the whistle - blower behind the Russian sports doping scandal.

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.

The breakdown: Speaking of docs that went for a lot of money, there's this dive into the world of the Russian athletic doping scandal, produced by the same company as «Step,» in fact.

Fogel, a comedian and amateur cyclist, is fascinated by the doping scandal of Lance Armstrong and decides to put himself through a similar regimen to see how much it helps.

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.

Icarus Filmmaker Bryan Fogel's self - experimentation and its effect on his cycling performance leads him into the heart of the state - sponsored Russian Olympic doping scandal.

The Lance Armstrong doping scandal has been explored in documentaries such as «The Armstrong Lie» and «Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story»; now comes Stephen Frears» narrative take on the seven - time Tour de France winner (played by Ben Foster) who was stripped of his victories after an investigation revealed his systematic use of performance - enhancing drugs.

In his pursuit to fool the authorities, the filmmaker recruits the help of Grigory Rodchenkov, the man who is credited for orchestrating the biggest doping scandal in Olympic history.

As Rodchenkov decides to finally come clean about Russia's doping scandal during the 2012 and 2014 Olympics, the documentary shifts from a vaguely interesting experiment to the revelation of a full - blown conspiracy.

Bird & Bird has acted on a number of sporting mandates recently including the sale of Wolves FC and the Russian athletics doping scandal

I hear Olympics, and my mind starts imagining protests over athletes being excluded, the odd bribe here and there, a little bit of trade - mark infringement, a few doping scandals, maybe demonstrators being kettled and baton charged, which all leads to: lawsuits!