Bryan Fogel on "Icarus"—and Russia

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🗓️ 12 August 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Filmmaker and cyclist Bryan Fogel talks about his new movie, Icarus, about Russian subversion of international doping rules in sports—and how it relates to the current investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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1:27.0	I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast August 12th, 2017.
1:37.0	The film Icarus by Brian Fogel is a new Netflix documentary about Russian Olympic doping.
1:44.0	And the defection of the chief scientist at Russia's anti-doping
1:57.0	lab, a man named Gregory Rudchenkov. At one level, it's a movie about sports and cheating in them by a state actor.
2:04.0	At another level, it's a movie about something that will be very familiar to LawFair readers and listeners of this podcast.
2:11.0	Russian tampering with international processes in the world.
2:16.0	Another level, it's a movie about something that will be very familiar to LawFair readers and listeners of this podcast.
2:23.0	Russian tampering with international processes in order to destroy their integrity.
2:29.0	Know the film is not about Russian tampering in the US election, but people interested in that subject will be interested in this film and will see eerie parallels.
2:40.0	Director Brian Fogel, who did not know when he started working on this movie that it would be a film about international intrigue,
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