DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
ICARUS
August 4, 2017  | By David Bianculli

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Bryan Fogel, a cyclist and a filmmaker, learned firsthand what many good reporters learn while investigating their subjects: Go where the story takes you, even if you didn’t expect to go there. In his case, he set out to make a film about the effects of performance-enhancing drugs, and intentional doping, on athletes in the cycling world. What he ended up doing was uncovering proof of a deep-seated, organized doping scandal by Russian athletes at the 2014 Olympic Games. And in Russia, breaking that kind of story can be dangerous to almost everyone involved, as Icarus, which made a big showing at the Sundance film festival, shows.

 
 
 
 
 
Leave a Comment: (No HTML, 1000 chars max)
 
 Name (required)
 
 Email (required) (will not be published)
 
SVMXU
Type in the verification word shown on the image.