Russia & Doping: Filmmaker Befriends Lead Russian Doping Scientist

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🗓️ 5 August 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Bryan Fogel, the director and star of "Icarus," a new documentary about doping in sports, joins Chuck to explain how he stumbled onto Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, Russia's lead scientist for the country's doping program.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:04.6	Meet the press.
0:09.6	Russia might be in the news because of election meddling, invading Ukraine, or kicking the
0:12.9	American diplomatic corps out of Moscow.
0:15.4	But not too long ago, one of Russia's most notorious crimes on the world stage was
0:19.6	Olympic doping.
0:20.6	And in fact, among the motives for Vladimir Putin to come after the West and the United
0:25.9	States, this was on that list.
0:28.8	He felt unfairly targeted by the West on this issue.
0:33.3	So welcome to 1947 to meet the press podcast.
0:36.2	My guest today is Brian Fogel.
0:38.3	He's the director and star of a new documentary called Icarus.
0:42.6	It's a strange and fascinating story that started with the director's curiosity about
0:48.9	doping and ended with Guess Who, Vladimir Putin.
0:54.0	But before we get started, we should tell our listeners that this is the first of several
0:57.2	podcasts that we'll be featuring that are about documentaries.
1:01.4	As some of you may know, we announced a collaboration this week with the American Film Institute
1:05.2	to put on the first ever Meet the Press Film Festival in November.
1:08.9	I'm a huge fan of documentaries myself.
1:11.0	I'm excited about what we're going to be putting together with AFI and who knows.
1:14.8	Maybe in five years, you will associate MTP docs and AFI with political documentaries
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