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Director Bryan Fogel on How His Personal Sports Doc Icarus Became a Political Bombshell

By August 3, 2017 No Comments

“Bryan Fogel’s documentary Icarus is very unusual — it turned into something completely different from what he intended. It began as a personal doc in which Fogel, who moonlights as a bike racer, tried to learn how a professional athlete like Lance Armstrong cheated on drug tests by injecting himself with steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs and still passing those tests. Via Skype, he was aided by a Russian man, Grigory Rodchenkov”