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Doping Top Secret: Dirty Games
ARD - July 27, 2024
The ARD revelations about the suspected case of mass doping among top Chinese swimmers and the questionable role of the World Anti-Doping Agency have plunged the sporting world into a crisis of confidence three months before the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024. But it is not only the "China files" that is casting a shadow over the sporting spectacle on the Seine. In the documentary "Doping Top Secret: Dirty Games", Hajo Seppelt and his team from the ARD doping editorial team show how deeply the Olympic movement is stuck in the doping swamp and how little the "Lords of the Rings" are doing about it.
Doping Top Secret: The China Files
ARD - April 21, 2024
An unpublished suspected case of mass doping by 23 top Chinese swimmers and a mysterious secret document are the focus of the documentary "The China Files". The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is under massive pressure as a result of the publication. The gripping research was carried out together with the New York Times.
Interview with Caster Semenya: ‘It can lead to suicide’
Sports show Olympic Games - 08.08.2024
In an exclusive interview with ARD, two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya describes the blatant effect athletics rules have on her life and how she experiences the discussions about gender identity in Paris. She has no sympathy for her critics.
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Interview with former cyclist Jan Ullrich - ‘I made a decision for life’
Sports show - 26.11.2023
Jan Ullrich was one of Germany's greatest sporting heroes - and has fallen lower than almost anyone else. In an interview with ARD doping expert Hajo Seppelt, the 1997 Tour de France winner talks about his life lie, his fall from grace, his latest doping confession and his plans for a future without drugs and alcohol excesses.
▶️ Watch now here on Sportschau.de.
Doping Top Secret: DEALER
ARD - March 31, 2023
While researching this documentary, EyeOpening.Media tracked down a key figure in the international doping trade. The authors, led by Hajo Seppelt, prove that the Dane Jacob Sporon-Fiedler illegally imported anabolic steroids into the European Union. Sporon-Fiedler pulls the strings with his company Alpha Pharma from Mumbai, where EyeOpening.Media tracked him down.
Doping Top Scret: NO LIMITS - When football knows no limits
ARD - December 1, 2022
The pressure in football continues to rise. Players raise the alarm and regularly resort to painkillers. At the World Cup, they are even allowed to use a highly addictive substance that even the WADA classifies as a performance enhancer.
Abused - Sexualized Violence in German Swimming
ARD - August 18, 2022
The German Swimming Association (DSV) is once again having to deal with serious allegations regarding its handling of sexual abuse. In this documentary by Hajo Seppelt and his team, Jan Hempel, one of the best German divers of the last decades, speaks for the first time about the serious sexual assaults he suffered as a young man by his coach.
Doping Top Secret: Human Trials – The secret experiments in GDR sport.
ARD - Feb 26, 2021
This documentary uncovers that GDR amateurs acted as "lab rats" for experiments that the regime did not want its stars and talents to be subjected to.
Countless amateur athletes were given trial substances with completely unknown side effects. Unscrupulous doctors experimented on these oblivious victims with dangerous methods, just like in animal trials. The goal was to research training methods, also to test the performance enhancing effects of doping substances before they were given to GDR top stars.
Doping Top Secret: How Russia makes its winners
ARD - 03 December 2014
With 33 medals, Russia was by far the strongest nation at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The WDR team led by Hajo Seppelt uncovers what is behind the dubious successes: widespread doping and a corrupt system.
In the 60-minute documentary, whistleblowers reported on systemic doping in Russia in athletics and other sports. The film substantiates the allegations with evidence in videos and audios secretly recorded by whistleblowers as well as documents.
▶️ Watch the film here on Sportschau.de now.