![]() So what’s left for us to do? I guess nothing more than just keep double tapping on shirtless selfies Zayn uploads on Instagram like these two. ![]() Maybe what Zayn’s waiting for is that RCA lets him go and he can become an independent artist? Can it be that this fiasco due to the lack of promotion was something intentional by Zayn to perhaps take one or two sabbatical years? I don’t know what to think. ![]() But I only see someone unbothered in these new pics. Perhaps Zayn should stop uploading Instagram selfies and start doing magazine interviews or Q&As with fans on Twitter where he tells us what can we expect from him in the future? Would it be honest to say his career has been hurt after the “Icarus Falls” fiasco? I’d say yes. Will he start recording his next album? Will he release it with RCA? So many questions. ![]() So what’s next for Zayn? I doubt he’s going to continue with the promotion of “Icarus Falls”. What a turn-off! He should have left the sides intact. I’ve always thought of Zayn of a handsome guy but that new beard style? Ugh. However just days after the PyeongChang Games ended, the International Olympic Committee lifted its ban on the Russian Olympic Committee even though the country is still non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Agency, Deadline reports.A post shared by Zayn Malik on at 4:33am PST This meant Russia was unable to earn a position on the podium and unable to add to its medal cache. Russian athletes competed under a neutral flag in Pyeongchang last month-representing the Olympic Athletes from Russia in South Korea. Thanks largely in part to Fogel’s work , Russia was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics. Yes, Icarus is responsible for the Olympic Russian Ban We won’t spoil all the juicy details (and surprises) for you, but as you can imagine this news had quite an influence on the 2018 Winter Olympics.Ĥ. Shortly after, the World Anti-Doping Association exposed the extent of Russia’s doping-including Rodchenkov and Vladimir Putin’s involvement in it all. Later, he’d replace their urine with the untainted smuggled samples since he ran the lab that handled Olympic testing, The New York Times reports. Actor Laura Dern (C) with producer Dan Cogan (L) and director Bryan Fogel, winners of the Best Documentary Feature for Icarus pose in the press room. Rodchenkov says he’d mix three banned steroids with liquor for Russian athletes. Rodchenkov snuck Fogel’s urine through an airport-something he later admits was a technique Russia used to keep its Olympic athletes “clean” at the Sochi Winter Games in 2014, The Guardian reports. The Doping Documentary That Will Make You Lose Faith In Sports Read article Sensing a propitious opportunity, Fogel asked Rodchenkov to help him cheat the system-dope and dodge detection-to which Rodchenkov eagerly agreed. As if by fate, one introduced him to Russian scientist Grigory Rodchenkov, then-director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Centre. Naturally Fogel needed some experts to show him the ropes. He wanted to be a true muckraker by cruising through the competition (and his best time) and pass the urine tests all on film, The Guardian summarizes. Bryan Fogel struck filmmaker gold-on accidentįogel’s initial plan was to prove how easy it is to get away with doping by competing in a prestigious amateur race he’d done the year before-only now tackle it chemically enhanced. Fogel more or less trips into one of the biggest sport scandals the world has ever seen.ģ. “So I’m going, ‘Wait, what is wrong with the system?’ Not, ‘What is wrong with Lance?’”īut at the end of this documentary, Armstrong’s misdoings are overshadowed by more nefarious revelations. “Lance Armstrong had evaded 500 anti-doping controls clean,” Fogel told Seth Meyers in an interview on Late Night in summer 2017. It’s also the first time a Netflix Original has taken home a statuette for best documentary feature.īryan Fogel- Icarus filmmaker and recreational cyclist-began the documentary as an answer to Lance Armstrong’s scandalous career. Icarus is one of the few Oscar-winning movies you can screen on a lazy Sunday in bed. The 10 Best Dressed Guys at the 2018 Academy Awards Read article
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