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Icarus (2017)

Rate: 7
Viewed: 3/23

3/23: I don't care about the Olympics, and I haven't watched it in decades.

Why? They're all cheating. Hence, I call the games "Cheatlympics." The joke is on everybody when the Russians and the East Germans are painted as the bad guys because the United States athletes cheat, too. It's just a question of being caught.

Usain Bolt? No way. Please don't wake me up when he tests positive one day. His times are impossible. Ben Johnson who was stripped of his gold medal for anabolic steroids? Ha! Carl Lewis also cheated and failed drug tests left and right, but the U.S. track and field officials turned a blind eye to it. They did the same for Florence Griffith-Joyner who obviously cheated, but she abruptly retired when random drug tests were mandated and died in her sleep years later at age 38.

All in all, Icarus is all right but can sometimes be incomprehensible while pointing out nothing new.

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