“As testing improves, athletes and national federations also have a role to play in keeping sport clean…A few days after the close of London’s World Athletics Championships last month I managed to grab a few days with friends in Wales. I watched Icarus the film with them. Bryan Fogel, a more than useful amateur cyclist and modest playwright, was the driving force behind the film, and its director. I say it’s a film but it’s really a docu-drama, in which Fogel shows that the application of a cocktail of banned substances would have a profound impact on his performance in the saddle.”
