DOCUMENTARIES / FEATURES
Geheimsache Doping: DEALER
ARD - 31. März 2023
EyeOpening.Media ist bei den Recherchen zu dieser Dokumentation einer Schlüsselfigur des internationalen Dopingmittel-Handels auf die Spur gekommen. Die Autoren um Hajo Seppelt weisen dem Dänen Jacob Sporon-Fiedler illegale Einfuhr von anabolen Steroiden in die Europäische Union nach. Sporon-Fiedler zieht mit seiner Firma Alpha Pharma aus Mumbai die Fäden, wo ihn EyeOpening.Media aufspürte.
Geheimsache Doping: NO LIMITS - Wenn der Fußball keine Grenzen kennt
ARD - 01. Dezember 2022
Die Belastung im Fußball steigt immer weiter. Spieler schlagen Alarm und greifen regelmäßig zu Schmerzmitteln. Bei der WM dürfen sie sogar eine stark abhängig machende Substanz nutzen, die selbst die WADA als leistungssteigernd einstuft.
Missbraucht - Sexualisierte Gewalt im deutschen Schwimmsport
ARD - 18. August 2022
Der Deutsche Schwimm-Verband (DSV) muss sich erneut mit schweren Vorwürfen zum Umgang mit sexuellem Missbrauch auseinandersetzen. Jan Hempel, einer der besten deutschen Wasserspringer der letzten Jahrzehnte, spricht in dieser Dokumentation von Hajo Seppelt und seinem Team erstmals über schwerste sexuelle Übergriffe in der Jugendzeit durch seinen Trainer.
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.
Milliardenspiel Amateurfussball - Wenn das Geld im Umschlag kommt
ARD - 19. Januar 2022
Kern der Recherchen für diesen Film ist die bislang größte Online-Befragung zur Bezahlkultur im deutschen Amateurfußball. Die Ergebnisse machen ein massives Finanzproblem sichtbar: In den Ligen unterhalb des Profifußballs fließt jährlich Schwarzgeld von womöglich 500 Millionen Euro. Viel Geld, das oft bar im Briefumschlag gezahlt wird - ohne dass die Beteiligten Steuern und Sozialabgaben abführen.
Geheimsache Doping: SCHULDIG - Wie Sportler ungewollt zu Dopern werden können
ARD - 16. Juli 2021
Positiv durch flüchtigen Hautkontakt - dieses Doping-Experiment stellt das weltweite Anti-Doping-System infrage und schockiert Athletinnen und Athleten.
Forscher des Instituts für Rechtsmedizin der Uniklinik Köln haben zwölf Probanden geringe Mengen verschiedener Anabolika mittels einer Trägersubstanz über die Haut verabreicht - durch kurze Berührungen an Hand, Nacken und Arm. Bei allen zwölf Probanden ergaben die Erstauswertungen der Proben durch das renommierte Kölner Dopingkontrolllabor massiven Dopingverdacht. Bis zu fünfzehn Tage nach der Verabreichung der extrem geringen Anabolika-Dosis waren im Labor die Spuren nachweisbar.
Geheimsache Doping: Menschenversuche - Die heimlichen Experimente im DDR-Sport
ARD - 26. Februar 2021
Diese Dokumentation deckt auf: DDR-Amateursportler dienten als "Versuchskaninchen" für Experimente, die den Stars und Talenten der DDR nicht zugemutet werden sollten.
Etliche Freizeitsportler erhielten unerforschte Substanzen, deren Wirkungen und Nebenwirkungen oft nicht bekannt waren. Skrupellose Mediziner experimentierten an diesen ahnungslosen Menschen mit zum Teil gefährlichen Mitteln und Methoden wie bei Tierversuchen. Es ging um das Erforschen von Trainingsmethoden, auch mit dem Ziel, die leistungssteigernde Wirkung von Dopingmitteln zu testen, bevor sie bei den Stars des Regimes zum Einsatz kommen sollten.
Doping Top Secret: Pass that Pill!
ARD - June 06, 2020
The research to "Doping Top Secret: Pass that Pill!" is a cooperation between EyeOpening.Media and the non-profit centre for journalism Correctiv. Together work on this project has lasted over a year. This film shows that in football - the number one sport among Germans - a "kick" of a different nature is often required. Many footballers are using painkillers, and they are doing it for one reason only: to enhance their performance.
More than 150 players in Germany’s top Bundesliga division have been interviewed, as well as former professionals, coaches, team doctors, scientists and managers. In total, 1,100 footballers took part in the survey. The results highlight a shocking trend: more than 40 percent of the reasons given for taking painkillers are related to performance enhancement, regardless of actual pain or injuries.
Doping Top Secret: Lord of the Lifters – The Destruction of an Olympic Sport
ARD - Jan 05, 2020
This documentary by EyeOpening.Media shows the unscrupulous way in which the sport of weightlifting is governed.
The authors are following the leads that lead them to the empire of the Hungarian Tamás Aján. For decades, he has been a valued member of the Olympic family. Since the year 2000 he is at the head of the International Weightlifting Federation IWF.
In weightlifting, athletes have little to no say, as this research shows. It is a world, in which the fight against doping is little more than a game of power.
This film explores the answer to the question as to how it is possible that under the guise of fair and clean sport, a system of cover-ups and corruption was able to flourish.
Doping Top Secret: Trace to North Africa
ARD - Oct 3, 2019
Is Morocco a paradise for sports cheats? This is the question that this film is trying to answer. One of the key figures: French middle distance runner Morhad Amdouni, European Champion in 2018.
Gender Battle: The Abandoned Women of Sport
ARD - Sept 3, 2019
Many international sports federations introduced a testosterone limit for women – among them the World Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF. To keep their right to compete, these federations are advising women like South Africa’s Olympic champion Caster Semenya to undergo hormone therapy or even have surgery.
Women who are feeling perfectly healthy, going under the knife for a dramatic procedure just for a chance to keep competing.
Often among the best in the world, feeding the hopes of their country to win an Olympic medal, only to vanish from elite sports shortly after, ruined physically as well as psychologically.
Doping Top Secret: Confessions – Inside the mind of a doper
ARD - Jan 01, 2019
The convicted doper and cross-country skiing star Johannes Duerr of Austria tells EyeOpening.Media exclusively about his methods of cheating. Austria's former medal hopeful had help from Germany to organise his blood doping. The release of this film has led to criminal investigations all over Europe – among others against Mark Schmidt, a general practitioner from Erfurt, Germany.
Doping Top Secret: Traitors – Fallout from the Russian Doping Scandal
ARD - Dec 02, 2018
Hajo Seppelt's investigations into the case of Russia has sent ripples through the world of sport: bans, exclusions from the Olympics, court rulings, fake news attacks, dangerous flights and global protests among athletes. Also hacking attacks from spies, disruptions in global politics and mysterious deaths have been linked to the publications on the Russian doping scandal.
This film is looking back on the four years since Russia's systematic state sponsored doping programme had first made headlines around the globe. It explores how, in many areas, little has changed.
Doping Top Secret: Brazil's Twelfth Man
ARD - July 01, 2018
Brazil's heart is beating for football. Millions are made through the sport in the country that holds the record for the most World Cup wins. Brazil's stars are highly sought after in top leagues all over the world. This film by EyeOpening.Media shows: It is a system in which dubious doctors play an active role.
Doping Top Secret: Russia's Football Friends
ARD – May 20, 2018
The system of cover-ups in Russia's state sponsored doping programme was also of benefit for the country's national football players. This film has been released just prior to the opening of the 2018 Football World Cup in Russia.
Doping Top Secret: The Olympic Conspiracy
ARD - Jan 29, 2018
The global anti-doping control system is unsafe and open to manipulation. Until the release of this film, the doping sample bottles were thought of as being absolutely fail safe. But this research shows: These containers, approved for use by the World Anti-Doping Agency, can be opened by unauthorised persons without leaving a trace.
That means, swapping samples in order to cheat is actually possible. Just prior to the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, this two-part documentary by EyeOpening.Media is once again uncovering explosive issues.