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🗓️ 30 January 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Part two of the Bryan Fogel interview starts with Bryan discussing China’s ability to skate the doping controversy in Beijing. The two also discuss how much WADA is really doing in the doping battle in particular with the handling of Grigory and Russia. Lance and Bryan discuss the odd circumstances around the deaths to some of the key folks involved in the Russian lab. They close the conversation talking about living in fear of what has been produced by this film.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the forward podcast. This is part two of my conversation with |
0:06.3 | Ickeris director Brian Fogle. If you thought part one was crazy, |
0:10.7 | sit down and get ready part two is even crazier. Well Gregory told me a story that the reason he got the idea of swapping the urine essentially from the Chinese in Beijing he was at |
0:35.3 | Beijing and according to him what the Chinese did in Beijing if you look in Beijing the |
0:39.7 | Chinese won 133 medals right they swept those Beijing Olympics it was also they won in |
0:46.4 | swimming it was also the most incredible Olympics anybody had ever seen the |
0:50.3 | opening ceremonies the closing I mean it was the Swiss watch of Olympics and |
0:55.1 | it was China showing the world that they were a world superpower. |
0:59.0 | It was China's coming out party to planet Earth and going, hey, if we can do this, we can build your cars. |
1:06.4 | We can build your watches. |
1:08.6 | We can make your clothes. |
1:10.2 | If there's any doubt whether or not that China is a power, |
1:13.0 | look what we did in these Olympics. |
1:15.0 | And according to Gregory, what the Chinese did |
1:18.0 | just wasn't as sophisticated as the Russians. |
1:20.0 | What the Chinese did is that the Chinese athletes would report to the doping control officers when they came into tests, |
1:27.0 | but that there were certain agents that were basically Chinese government agents, right? And the athlete would know which of those |
1:34.8 | agents to report to. And they would report to those agents and the Dopin |
1:39.3 | Control officers that were watching them pee would have a little bag of urine, give it to the |
1:44.2 | athlete to put under their armpit, and so the athlete would test clean, would |
1:49.8 | pee clean, and that's why there was no positives for Chinese athletes out of Beijing and if they go back to |
1:56.9 | test those samples out of Beijing they'll find a ton of positives from other athletes but |
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