While looking into illegal doping in sports, filmmaker and amateur cyclist Bryan Fogel got in touch with Grigory Rodchenkov, the director of Russia's national antidoping laboratory. Over the course of their correspondence, Fogel found out that Russia had a state-sponsored Olympic doping program. While he initially began the investigation on a small scale, Fogel witnessed this massive global sports conspiracy grow in size and eventually became a whistleblower for the entire scandal. Rodchenkov testified that his team switched out steroid-tainted urine samples for clean ones, then he went into witness protection. After reviewing evidence that Rodchenkov shared, the International Olympic Committee went on to ban Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics.
