Seven sports documentaries to watch on Netflix, HBO and Amazon Prime during this Easter holiday

We echo this news published by Vitonica.com where they offer us a series of sports documentaries hosted on the main video consumption platforms Netflix, HBO or Amazon Prime

Netflix

The Barkley marathons

What would you say is the toughest race in the world? It is possible that the Barkley Marathon is one of them. 160 miles to travel in a hostile mountain environment, where the route is not marked and 35 participants who take part in it have only two refreshment points in the five laps that must be given to the circuit.

Since its first edition in 1986 only 15 have been athletes who have managed to finish it within the time limit (12 hours to cross the finish line), and only one, Jared Campbell, has been able to cross the finish line on three different occasions. The Netflix documentary shows us inside the edition in which for the first time in history three runners reached the fifth round of the race.

Available on Netflix.

Stop at nothing: the Lance Armstrong story

The documentary tells the story of what was considered one of the best athletes of our time. Lance Armstrong won a whopping seven Tours de France, in addition to overcoming a testicular cancer

Available on Netflix.

The redeemed and the dominant

In The redeemed and the dominant we can see the rise to the podium of Mat Fraser and Tia-Claire Toomey, the winners of the CrossFit Games in its edition of 2017.

A close documentary that, in addition to showing us how a competition of this caliber from within, also shows us the first case of doping that affected the podium of a CrossFit Games: the Australian Ricky Garard.

Available on Netflix.

Icarus

Endorsed by an Oscar for the best documentary and another prize for the best political documentary at the Sundance festival, Icarus moves around the doping scandal in the Russian sport that started already in 1968.

Although the documentary was born with the intention of publicizing the problem of doping in sports in general, when the director of the same began to collaborate with Grigori Rodchenkov, former director of the Russian anti-doping laboratory, he discovered a doping plot that had been animated from the Russian government for decades.

Available Netflix.

Generation Iron 2

If in Generation Iron we could see how the path of different athletes was towards the podium of the Mister Olympia, the annual bodybuilding competition run by the IFBB, and one of the most important in the world; Generation Iron 2 shows us how a new generation of athletes moves in a world that is changing along with social networks and new training methods.

In this case the film is not centered around a competition, but it talks about bodybuilding in general and how it has evolved over the years. How female competition has almost disappeared and how technology has influenced this sport.

Available on Netflix.

HBO

Marathon: The Patriots' Day Bombing

Just this week the 122 edition of the Boston Marathon was celebrated, which is part of the six World Marathon Majors, the most important in the world.

This documentary made by the Boston Globe newspaper and HBO tells us about the aftermath in the lives of athletes who were irremediably marked by the event and how they have been able to recover and return to their daily lives and sports. A story of personal improvement that is worth seeing in this week.

Available HBO.

Amazon Prime

The trail of the conquerors

The path of the conquerors was the 2016 challenge carried out by ultra-long distance runner Andrés Lledó, who crossed Costa Rica from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast in eight days. In total about 400 kilometers on foot through a country where he was able to experience the concept of "pura vida" of the Costa Ricans.

Available Amazon Prime Video.