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Icarus

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Icarus is a 2017 documentary feature, produced by Netflix, directed by Bryan Fogel.It begins with Bryan Fogel, an amateur cyclist, seeking to document the uselessness of drug tests in sports as administrated by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and other agencies. Fogel's idea is to himself go through a standard PED ("performance-enhancing drug") doping cycle, then document how he beat drug tests while competing. Fogel needs an expert to help him set up and administer his program of steroid use, so he contacts Don Catlin, the founder of the UCLA Olympics Lab. Catlin doesn't wish to get involved so he introduces Fogel to Grigori Rodchenkov, the director of Russia's Olympic drug-testing laboratory.While Rodchenkov is in the process of helping Fogel with his PED program, German television breaks an explosive report of an extensive, state-sanctioned program in Russia designed to help the entire Russian Olympic team take PEDs and still pass drug tests. Rodchenkov is summarily fired by the government that had been giving him marching orders. Fearing arrest, he flees to the United States. Bryan Fogel's original "fool drug tests" scheme is forgotten as the film centers on the explosive scandal that implicates the Russian government all the way up to Vladimir Putin himself.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 The Backwards Я
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 The Backwards Я: Used on posters for the film to evoke the connection to Russia. (That "backwards R" is actually not an R but a Cyrillic letter that is pronounced "ya".)
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 Art Shift: Mostly live-action, but animation is used to recount first Rodchenkov's stay in a mental hospital, and then the complex scheme by which the KGB used secret rooms and holes in walls to switch out tainted urine samples for clean ones.
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 All for Nothing
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 All for Nothing: Rodchenkov is in witness protection in the United States, separated from his family, who themselves are being closely watched by the Russian government. He has no job. His family's assets are frozen. And the Russians get to compete in the 2016 Summer Games anyway. (After this film was made the Russians were banned from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics, but that was a slap-on-the-wrist punishment as the athletes were still allowed to compete, just not under the Russian flag.)
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