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Amateur cyclists’ doping film turns into something much bigger than just that – a matter of life and death

By August 13, 2017 No Comments

“Amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel had an great idea for a film documentary: he would use himself as a human guinea pig for doping and see how good he could get riding dirty. Early in his film Icarus, he meets Don Catlin, the godfather of US drug testing who ran the UCLA laboratory that tested US Olympians. Catlin tested Lance Armstrong 50 times without a bite. His voice is weary with experience. ‘They were all doping. Every single one of them. With certain knowledge, you can get round the tests every time. Unfortunately, the drugs work.'”