When accepting his Academy Award, Fogel said, “We dedicate this award to Dr. Grigory, our fearless whistleblower who now lives in grave danger.”, “Icarus” director-producer Fogel and co-producer Dan Cogan with their Best Documentary Feature Oscars. Rodchenkov, the former head of Moscow's anti-doping laboratory. Are they giving him some kind of substances so that he says what's required? That Rodchenkov is in the United States "is not a positive for us, it's a negative,” Putin said, according to the AP. Grigory Rodchenkov speaks to BBC sports editor Dan Roan in February 2018. “Of course, we are disappointed, but we initially assumed that the recommendations of the WADA Executive Committee would be approved without change, especially after the main points were made public.”. He has been interviewed repeatedly by The New York Times, featured on CBS' "60 Minutes" and profiled at length in "Icarus," a feature-length documentary that won best documentary at this year's Academy Awards. But the president of Russia’s Olympic Committee, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, said the ban was inappropriate. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! FIFA’s statutes make clear the World Cup is a tournament for its national member associations and teams play on that basis. IndieWire has reached out to Prokhorov via the Brooklyn Nets for comment. Of course, Vitaly also knew the truth, since he worked within RUSADA. World Anti-Doping Agency says Moscow tampered with lab data by planting fake evidence, deleting files linked to tests. ... Rodchenkov, 59, is under a witness protection programme in the US. Since his departure from Russia, Rodchenkov has willingly provided substantial information relating to the Russian doping scheme. “Big figures in sport want to keep Russia in the game, rather than push them away from it,” he said. He faces criminal charges of "abuse of official powers leading to grave consequences,” according to the Associated Press. Russian doping: Whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov will testify but life under 'serious threat' Last updated on 13 January 2018 13 January 2018. “We are confident that the Formula One Russian Grand Prix will be held in 2020 and in the following years and invite everyone to Sochi – the ticket sales are in full swing,” the statement added. All three lost their former livelihoods and family and friendship ties in Russia. Last updated on 12 June 201812 June 2018.From the section Sport. A representative for Prokhorov told NBC News: "We categorically deny the accusations in this suit. Had I known of the IOC’s cowardice, I might have urged a different path.”. The star witness will not be present. Their pursuit of truth now coincides with the global effort to combat disinformation. In November 2017, 17 months after first speaking to New York Times reporters, Rodchenkov shared journal entries with the newspaper, written soon before and after the Sochi Olympics. The case of Grigory Rodchenkov is somewhat different. From the confines of the Witness Protection Program, “Icarus” co-star Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov filed an April 30 lawsuit against Mikhail Prokhorov, the billionaire owner of the Brooklyn Nets. “If they qualify [for the World Cup], a team representing Russia cannot participate. The system Rodchenkov ran was detailed in McLaren’s investigation last year, which revealed that Russia subverted the anti-doping system during the Sochi Olympics by swapping out urine samples through a hole in the wall. Becauseof the importance of sports to revealing Hack and Hype tactics, we felt it was equally important to laud the efforts of three Russian heroes whose honest actions led to the discovery of this Kremlin tactic. Grigory Rodchenkov's lawyers also filed a lawsuit on Monday against Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian oligarch who owns the Brooklyn Nets and financially supports the libel suit filed by the three Russian athletes. Switches were made possible by a hand-sized hole in the wall of Rodchenkov’s Sochi lab, typically concealed by a cabinet. They pointed out that the race was entered on next year’s calendar and said it would be “legally and technically impossible” to re-assign it elsewhere. The punishment, however, leaves the door open for clean Russian athletes to compete at major international sporting events without their flag or anthem, for four years, as was the case during the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The individual cases are ongoing as more than two dozen Russian athletes have appealed the Oswald Commission sanctions to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Granted asylum last year, he lives in an unknown location within the country’s witness protection programme. There are three unsung Russian heroes who have unintentionally become the guidon bearers of a new order of cyberspace transparency and decency. "The IOC categorically denies Mr. Walden's claim that the IOC has taken no action and the ridiculous assertion that we would like it if Mr Rodchenkov 'were not to be available,’” the statement continued. Prokhorov is paying the biathletes’ legal fees for the New York State Supreme Court case. The WADA committee’s decision to punish Russia with a ban was unanimous, its spokesman said. Rodchenkov, who lives in the US under a witness protection programme, said those involved in the doping of athletes “should be punished retroactively”. Recipe. Both men hail from Russia, where Rodchenkov — tasked with overseeing the Olympic Anti-Doping Laboratory in 2014 — says the government ordered him to help dozens of their nation’s cheating athletes bypass testing for performance-enhancing drugs. He’s been consistent and clear, and his testimony has been corroborated and credited again and again.”. That article declared “Russia is the globe’s reigning World Champion of Hack and Hype”.The term “Hack and Hype” refers to Russia’s tactic of coupling hacking with disinformation, all as part of a strategic plan to disrupt the global leadership that has been built upon Western values. “These are lies, plain and simple. “From that position onward, it’s been about the politics of the situation. ... Rodchenkov, 59, is under a witness protection programme in the US. They chose truth! He said that he was instrumental in a Russian government-funded doping program, and that this program allowed Russia to overwhelm the competition during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, where Russia won 33 medals. President Vladimir Putin this month accused U.S. agencies of manipulating the evidence from Rodchenkov.