![]() Rodchenkov is such an infectiously corrupt character that once he enters the picture, it hardly matters that Fogel’s initial premise is a bust (he actually does better on Switzerland’s daunting Haute Route the year before taking banned performance boosters). The search leads him to Grigory Rodchenkov, an amiable if baldly amoral Russian doctor who not only oversaw drug testing in Moscow’s Olympics Lab, but - per his own admission - engineered a state-sanctioned doping program that successfully gave the Russian athletes an edge at the Sochi Olympic Games, resulting in 13 gold medals. ![]() All he needs is an accomplice with loose enough ethical standards to guide him through the system - and that’s what makes his movie such a game-changer.īefore casting himself as a human guinea pig, Fogel reaches out to a handful of international experts. At least, that’s what’s implied by amateur cyclist-turned-cynical documentarian Bryan Fogel in his compelling new film “ Icarus.” Taking a page from the Morgan Spurlock playbook, Fogel sets out to prove that he can shoot himself full of anabolic steroids and other banned substances, boost his best time, and then slip through the gauntlet of anti-doping tests that await athletes at the finish line. “Just do it.” That slogan may sell shoes, but as sports mantras go, perhaps the phrase “Everybody’s doing it” might be more appropriate for what drives the international sports community today - where the “it” in question is performance-enhancing drugs.
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