![]() Fate brought him to a jolly, mustachioed guy in Russia with a penchant for shirtless Skype sessions. #Icarus documentary how toHe got his PEDs from an American doctor (they’re the same drugs used in controversial men’s anti-aging regimens), but had to look elsewhere for a scientist with a questionable moral compass who’d coach him in how to dope and get away with it. He was an amateur cyclist and second-time filmmaker in Los Angeles with a harebrained idea to try out doping himself, and do it on camera - kind of like Super Size Me of performance-enhancing drugs. When director Bryan Fogel set out to make his jaw-dropping, absolutely insane doping documentary, Icarus, he didn’t know that he’d walk away with exclusive footage of what may go down as the biggest scandal in the history of sport. And if you want to see how it went down, all you have to do turn on Netflix. Grigory Rodchenkov, of a brazen and pervasive state-run doping program that has likely tainted Russian results for the entirety of modern Olympic history. This comes after incontrovertible evidence emerged last year, much of it from a whistle-blower named Dr. In what once seemed like an unfathomable turn of events, Russia has been banned from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. ![]() We’ve updated it to include context about the Olympics banning Russia from the 2018 Winter Games. This piece originally ran in August 2017. ![]()
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