He’s at the heart of a massive program, sponsored and condoned by the highest levels of the Russian state, helping elite Russian athletes win medals through doping. RELATED: That EPO Study You’re Reading May Not Tell The Full Storyīut the moral questions involved in Fogel’s personal quest quickly fall to the wayside as the story takes a startling turn with Rodchenkov’s moral ambivalence as foreshadowing: Rodchenkov is not merely helping Fogel evade doping tests. In one test, we learn he’s improved from 250 watts at threshold to almost 350-at Fogel’s relatively light weight and domestic pro level of fitness. And we see Fogel himself taking the drugs (along with EPO) and dramatically improving his performance on the bike. We then meet an anti-aging doctor who freely prescribes the healthy, relatively young Fogel with drugs like growth hormone and testosterone.
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( Spoiler alert: If you haven't watched Icarus yet, we recommend you catch the movie on Netflix first and come back to read this interview.) Will Rodchenkov help him, asks Fogel? Rodchenkov asks a few questions, nods at the answers, and then readily agrees, matter-of-factly laying out what Fogel should do to accomplish his goal. (If you haven't already seen it, you can catch the trailer here.)įogel wants to make a film documenting his scheme to dope and race the arduous Mavic Haute Route, all while evading any positive tests, as a means to expose the fallibility of the very testing regime of which Rodchenkov is a vital part. When we first meet Grigory Rodchenkov in the Netflix documentary Icarus, which debuts to wide release today, it’s via a Skype call-and the respected head of the World Anti Doping Agency-accredited Moscow drug testing laboratory is shirtless and somewhat disheveled as he listens to filmmaker and cyclist Bryan Fogel lay out an audacious plan.
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