“When he set out to make Icarus, the playwright and actor Bryan Fogel had one goal: to examine how easy it is to get away with doping in professional sport. An enthusiastic amateur cyclist, he was disturbed by the fact that someone like Lance Armstrong could cheat for so many years and never fail a single drug test. ‘Originally,’ he explains in the film, ‘the idea I had was to prove the system in place to test athletes was bullshit.’
