Icarus director Bryan Fogel has a lot to say about the loophole that has allowed Russian athletes to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics. An amateur cyclist himself, Fogel began his now-infamous doping documentary as a first-person investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports, but eventually stumbled onto Russia’s extensive state-sanctioned doping program, which recently got the country banned from the Pyeongchang Olympics.
