Turns out the positive test may have come from an anti-fungal cream used on the horse, not "a groom urinating in the stall after taking cough medicine."
The Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for Icarus comes at a time when the Russian doping scandal it covered is still very much in the news.
"Mr. Balber’s admission that unnamed ‘others’ are also financing this lawsuit is strange — raising the specter that the Kremlin itself might be acting through proxies here. Certainly, this could be problematic for all involved in this shady suit."
The World Anti-Doping Agency has been fighting cheaters in the Olympics and its associated sports for years. But...