A rare and insightful glimpse into how an athlete who has decided he is going to dope for the first time gets hooked up with the products he needs on the dark side.
It may be a TV channel that most of us are most used to hearing of in the context of terrorism and war reportage from the Middle East, but Al Jazeera has many strings to its bow.
Its Investigations Unit has just released this 50-minute expose on performance enhancing drugs in sport titled ‘The Dark Side’.
Most of the undercover reporting leads back to allegations against some very big names in baseball and American football rather than cycling.
However, given the problems our own sport has had for decades, which persist; we thought more than a few of you would want to see this documentary.
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It kicks off by profiling the former fastest man in the world, 100metre runner Tim Montgomery, who was banned from doping.
British track hurdler Liam Collins is teamed up with Montgomery and it is Collins who drives this film.
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Now aged 36 years old, he has returned to track racing having been implicated in a business scam in recent years.
Supplied with information on where Montgomery got his banned drugs, Collins set out to get his hands of a cocktail of performance enhancers, claiming he is trying one last time to get to the Olympics.
His journey, most of which is recorded covertly, offers a rare and insightful glimpse into how an athlete who has decided he is going to dope for the first time gets hooked up with the products he needs on the dark side.
Al Jazeera 'Dark Side' doping doc
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