![]() Two very different characters, Icarus makes for an unlikely double act. ![]() It's something of a buddy movie, with Fogel clearly developing a bond with the dodgy doc. To say any more would be to spoil the film but from an inauspicious beginning, the film becomes a fun ride. Icarus Official Trailer HD Netflix Filmmaker Bryan Fogel sets out on a mission to learn about performance-enhancing drugs in sports. The film follows the pair as the chaos unfolds. In his original attempts to game the anti-doping system, Fogel was introduced to Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of a Moscow anti-doping lab and who would later be at the centre of the scandal. Truth be told it gets red hot, as he accidentally finds himself on the inside of the biggest sports doping scandal of all time: the state-sponsored programme in Russia, which centred on the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. It's only once he departs the Haute Route that Fogel's doc warms up. This sort of thing has been done before, and done better (check out Mark Daly’s 2015 Panorama investigation Catch Me if You Can). And if this had been its sole focus, it wouldn't have found a home on streaming behemoth Netflix. This part of the documentary takes up just a quarter of the two-hour runtime. ![]() ![]() The irony that it was his bike, not body, that needed juice was delicious. Yet he could only muster 27 th in his medically-enhanced form – the drugs must have clouded his judgement, given how his race was wrecked by an empty Di2 battery on stage 2. Grigory Rodchenkov and filmmaker Bryan Fogel in a production still from the documentary, 'Icarus.' Netflix &151 - The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi was a grand spectacle of Russian glory. Fogel, having finished 14 th in the 2014 race, returned a year later charged to the gills on a cocktail of PEDs. ![]()
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