Rachel
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But he basically... It's a cyclist who took performance... Yeah, Brian Fogle.
He took performance-enhancing drugs in order to see how far he could stretch his body to try and... Because cycling is such an intense sport of endurance, he wanted to see how much he could improve under performance-enhancing drugs.
But in trying to...
to obtain these drugs or working with people who could safely administer them and everything like that.
He uncovered so much about the Russian doping scandal.
And this documentary just completely shifts in a different direction.
And I just remember watching it and being astounded at the production of it, at the storylines that it was bringing you through from a sport I don't really have that much interest in and a protagonist who I didn't know.
I think that's that could have been Six Nations could have done that for people.
Obviously, they don't have a massive doping scandal to catch your interest.
But in terms of it's a sport people maybe don't fully know and characters they don't fully know.
And if the only one you can think of at the end of it is Andrew Porter.
It's probably not a good sign there's only one.
You know that totally real brick wall behind us?
I want to run through it.
He also mentioned Hell for Leather, Nico, the dub Story of a Season.
We had another comment from Connor who said Blue to Gold, which I think is only released in December.
It's Tipperary's All-Ireland story.
Apologies to Rachel sat beside me.
I'm going to briefly touch on football because I feel like it's been done to death now, the football documentary series.