Sundance Film Review Icarus VarietyJust do it. That slogan may sell shoes, but as sports mantras go, perhaps the phrase Everybodys doing it might be more appropriate for what drives the international sports community today where the it in question is performance enhancing drugs. At least, thats whats implied by amateur cyclist turned cynical documentarian Bryan Fogel in his compelling new film Icarus. Taking a page from the Morgan Spurlock playbook, Fogel sets out to prove that he can shoot himself full of anabolic steroids and other banned substances, boost his best time, and then slip through the gauntlet of anti doping tests that await athletes at the finish line. All he needs is an accomplice with loose enough ethical standards to guide him through the system  and thats what makes his movie such a game changer. Before casting himself as a human guinea pig, Fogel reaches out to a handful of international experts. The search leads him to Grigory Rodchenkov, an amiable if baldly amoral Russian doctor who not only oversaw drug testing in Moscows Olympics Lab, but  per his own admission  engineered a state sanctioned doping program that successfully gave the Russian athletes an edge at the Sochi Olympic Games, resulting in 1. Rodchenkov is such an infectiously corrupt character that once he enters the picture, it hardly matters that Fogels initial premise is a bust he actually does better on Switzerlands daunting Haute Route the year before taking banned performance boosters. Opines Rodchenkov I dont believe the Olympic Games could be won without any kind of pharmacological support. While that claim may be his way of justifying his own behavior, it implies that the problem is more widespread than the World Anti Doping Agency WADA would have sports fans believe. While Lance Armstrongs recent admission to using banned substances came as a shock to some, the widespread assumption seems to be that like plastic surgery or cheating the scale during a weigh in doping is the dirty deed everyone does but no one talks about. What this means is that training to be strongest or fastest is only part of the game, while constantly innovating to outsmart the drug tests creates a second level of competition within the world of sports  one in which the testing are constantly struggling to keep up with the science. Join the NASDAQ Community today and get free, instant access to portfolios, stock ratings, realtime alerts, and more Join Today. But how to stay ahead of those tests Despite Rodchenkovs shocking confession, the strategy he used in order to cover for Russian athletes feels too primitive to explain how other athletes have been getting away with it all these years. Basically, the Russians collected and froze clean urine before beginning a regimen of steroid and human growth hormone injections, which Rodchenkov later substituted for the contaminated samples taken at the time of competition, using a crude system of back doors and hidden portals. Fogel undergoes the same routine, collaborating with Rodchenkov whos openly delighted to be participating in such cloak and dagger fraud to smuggle his urine to the Moscow lab, where it will be tested. For obvious reasons, some seemingly legit scientists opt not to play along with Fogels stunt, lest they divulge strategies athletes could use to return false negatives in the future. And yet, its clear that even their current methods are far from foolproof. For example, Don Catlin former director of the UCLA Olympic facility estimates that he must have tested Armstrong roughly 5. The results came back clean every time, even though the cyclists own testimony suggests hed been using substances the tests are designed to catch for much of that time. Armstrongs ability to avoid detection serves as Fogels reference point throughout the film, which includes fresh interviews with former teammates Timmy Duggan and Tyler Hamilton, as well as prominent WADA members, representing the organization that could be most negatively impacted by the film not counting Russia, of course but then, is anyone surprised by claims of Russian corruption. After his own Haute Route experiment goes south, Fogel shifts his focus to the implications of Rodchenkovs confession, erecting an elaborate Orwellian architecture to prove that the pressure to fix the Olympics came directly from Vladimir Putin. Icarus divides its most incendiary segment into three chapters, labeled learning, understanding, and acceptance, after the Ministry of Loves reconditioning procedures in 1. Featuring lively caricatures of the Russian scandals key players sketched by Sam Johnson set to ominous music by composer Adam Peters, Icarus casts the bulk of the blame on sports minister Vitaly Mutko. Naturally, the Russians attempt to discredit Rodchenkov, placing Fogel at the center of the international media circus  much as Laura Poitras found the Edward Snowden situation spiraling out of control during the making of Citizenfour. Drawn into the controversy, Fogel actually helped to engineer Rodchenkovs defection to the U. S., and is mentioned in the whistleblowers May 2. New York Times. Now, the documentary fills in the gaps. But mostly it serves to humanize this self confessed cheat, putting Rodchenkovs behavior in the context of far greater corruption. Given all the attention on Russia in recent news coverage, Fogels Putin centric approach will likely prove more effective than a deeper investigation into just how widespread such behavior is around the globe. 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