“It wasn’t the film Bryan Fogel set out to make. The director and amateur cyclist had envisioned ‘a kind of Super Size Me into the world of doping.’ He would dope, compete in a race, evade drug tests and, if he succeeded, call into question the entire anti-doping apparatus meant to ensure the sanctity of national and international championships and the Olympics. That project was ambitious enough. But what he accidentally stumbled into was the very center of the Russian doping scandal as the elaborate, state-sponsored operation unraveled.”
