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The Summer’s Top Documentaries

By July 27, 2017 No Comments

“With Icarus, writer and amateur cyclist ­Bryan Fogel set out to make a ­lighthearted docu­mentary about experimenting with performance-enhancing drugs. But when he contacts Grigory Rodchenkov, the chief of Russia’s anti-doping program, Fogel becomes wrapped up in an international scandal. In a Bond-thriller twist, Rodchenkov admits to providing PEDs to hundreds of Russia’s athletes, on orders that allegedly come all the way from the Kremlin.”