Icarus

               The movie “Icarus” was created in 2017. The Director of this movie is Bryan Fogel. The main stars of the movie are Bryan Fogel, Nikita Kamaev and Grigory Rodchenkov. The movie was about an athlete whose name was Bryan, and about every Russian sportsman using doping. This film is really interesting and include many interesting things about doping. 
               It happened in 2014, Bryan Fogel was a cyclist. He had a mountain bike, and it was his entire life. He was getting ready for the single hardest amateur cycling event in the world. It was basically a miniature Tour de France for insane people. Bryan has been riding for 28 years seriously, but never as a professional. He has known, that the best cyclist of the first Tour de France was LeMond. Bryan was in seventh grade, when LeMond won the Tour de France. LeMond was the first American person who won the Tour de France. LeMond brought Bryan to this sport. LeMond was a kind of hero for Bryan. Bryan knew about doping, but he did not want to use it, and even to know more information about doping too. LeMond has been tested 150 times over the last six years, it was in competition, out of competition, at home, at a race, and every time it was clean, so he did not use doping. He never failed a drug test. During his career, he had passed about 500 doping tests, but it did not work clean or correct. A member from the WADA-(The World-Anti-Doping-Agency) said, that every sportsman using doping, nobody is clean. Bryan’s goal was to be in the top of 100 persons of the Tour de France. After 7 days of racing, after 75 000 feet of climbing he was destroyed, and he finished 14. 
               In the film,Don Catlin was person who helped to design a program for using a doping for Bryan. He had to go to the laboratory to test his body. The labs are set up that nobody just go to do this. But Don could not do it, he knew one person who would help Bryan to use doping, because if Don helped Bryan to use doping, he could lose his job. The name of the person who continued helping to use and to find doping was Grigory Rodchenkov. Bryan started to use doping, he was excited, and during this time, he was tested every day. Every day he tested his power during practice. He was feeling that he did not use doping, but he was getting stronger. He injected all necessary doping to his muscles. December 9th, 2014 somebody created separate movie about Mr. Rodchenkov, and every sportsman who had work with Rodchenkov, everybody failed doping test. He knew all information about doping. He was a big professional. He was the best. 99% of Russian sportsmen failed the doping test. After that, Bryan worried about his doping test. After, Mr. Rodchenkov told all information about doping to Bryan, and how to pass the WADA doping test. In a few weeks, Mr. Rodchenkov came to Los Angeles to Bryan. He was helping to Bryan to be ready for competition and doping test. In a few days, Mr. Rodchenkov came back to the Russia, after Mr. Rodchenkov analyzed Bryan’s urine for doping test. 
               After 5 month of doping Bryan felt very good, but still worried about doping test. During the competition, after stage 1, he was in 11th place and his health conditions were great. On the stage 2, something happened with his bike, it broke, and he dropped 10 places. And after he was 21st place. After his speed increased and he took 17th place. Mr. Rodchenkov said: “Do not worry, you are in very good conditions, next step it is go to Moscow”.  
               November 9th , 2015 it was big conflict with doping. Everybody knew that Mr. Rodchenkov the best of people who knew all information about doping, and many sportsmen used doping from Mr. Rodchenkov. Russia doping laboratory was the best in the world. Mr. Rodchenkov was in danger, he could lose his job, and athletics had problem with Olympic Games, that’s why he worried about his life. He tried to create a strategy how to leave Russia, because he had problems. He always had security man with him. Mr. Rodchenkov could ruin WADA and Russia.
Mr. Rodchenkov moved to Bryan’s home, and he was staying in the house, because his life was in danger. Mr. Rodchenkov family decided to stay in Russia. He even destroyed his office computer, for his safety. He could change the past just telling the truth. After, Mr. Rodchenkov told truth, that in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Russia won a total 73 medals, and 30 sportsmen of 70 were dirty. 
After, Russian team were getting ready for Olympic Games in Sochi, they had one month. Mr. Rodchenkov was still person who helped to use doping for Olympic Games. I want to say, that this is not the end of the story, because this question still open without answers…
               So, I want to say that most part of sportsmen using doping, and it is so hard to find clean sportsmen, and I am speaking about all sportsmen around the world even in the United States of America. This movie that only begins as a commentary on doping in sports and becomes something greater about the dangers of being a whistleblower, especially when the whistle blows on Russia.