“‘I was sitting on a nuclear bomb of information’…The original concept behind director Bryan Fogel’s film that would become Icarus was an outlandish bit of participatory documentary making. Fogel, an amateur cyclist, decided he would engage in a doping regime before racing in the grueling Haute Route competition in order to explore how the drugs affected his performance and how easy it was to defeat the testing systems. To guide his use of banned substances, he enlisted the help of Grigory Rodchenkov, the mustachioed Russian scientist who ran Moscow’s Anti-Doping Centre.”
