INTERVIEWS & MORE PRODUCTIONS
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Caster Semenya: "It can lead to suicide" - GERMAN VERSION
Sportschau Olympic Games - 08.08.2024
In an exclusive interview with ARD, two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya describes the drastic effect athletics rules have on her life and how she experiences the discussions about gender identity in Paris. She has no understanding for her critics.
Interview with Caster Semenya: "It can lead to suicide" - ENGLISH VERSION
Sportschau Olympische Spiele - 08.08.2024
Interview with former cyclist Jan Ullrich - "I have decided for life"
Sportschau - 26.11.2023
Jan Ullrich was one of the greatest German sports heroes - and has fallen as far as almost anyone else. In an interview with ARD doping expert Hajo Seppelt, the 1997 Tour de France winner talks about his life's lie, his downfall, his latest doping confession and his plans for a future without drugs and alcohol excesses.
OTHER PRODUCTIONS
Doctor in court: Seidenberg doping case expands
ARD Morning Magazine - 26.09.2024
His doping case shocked German sport two years ago. Yannic Seidenberg, 173-time national ice hockey player, was banned for four years. Now details of the fraud are coming to light - and the case is spreading further.
New doping discussions about Paralympics star Townsend
Paralympic Games - September 3, 2024
The US Anti-Doping Agency and its head Travis Tygart are the harshest critics of the World Anti-Doping Agency in the case of the 23 Chinese swimmers. During the Paralympics, the case of a US star is now being discussed, in which the Americans have to put up with uncomfortable questions.
Suspicion of fraud casts shadow on Para-Judo competitions
Paralympic Games - August 29, 2024
According to ARD research, para-judokas who are supposedly blind or severely visually impaired are competing in the Paralympics under massive suspicion of fraud. The World Federation of Blind Sports is keeping quiet. Above all, there is a classification system that practically invites trickery and deception.
WADA chief Banka rules out resignation - counter by Tygart
Sportschau Olympic Games - 10.08.2024
The WADA leadership is meeting with German sports politicians in Paris because of the scandal surrounding unsanctioned Chinese doping cases - and is facing massive criticism. USADA boss Tygart, meanwhile, counters WADA attacks in an ARD interview.
Doping controls: Paris threatens London's horror record
Sportschau Olympic Games - 06.08.2024
The fact that hardly any dopers have been caught during the Olympic Games in Paris is no surprise in a disillusioned scene. There is no need for new doping cases on the Seine - the frustration among clean athletes can hardly get any greater now.
IOC under pressure to change the rules
Sportschau Olympic Games Paris - 02.08.2024
The Italian boxer Carini's withdrawal in the first round against an Algerian woman, whose gender is the subject of debate, is stirring up emotions among sports fans around the world.
WADA's next backroom deal
Sportschau Olympic Games Paris - 01.08.2024
There is once again severe worldwide criticism of the top rule enforcers in the fight against doping. The suspicion: preferential treatment for Chinese athletes after positive doping tests.
Spain's failure in the anti-doping fight
Sportschau Olympic Games Paris- 29.07.2024
For decades, Spain has been criticized for its half-hearted anti-doping efforts. The full extent of the failure was revealed at the Olympic Games in Paris.
"Blatantly bad" - how Germany fails to protect young athletes
Sportschau - 08.06.2024
While sports and politics argue behind the scenes about setting up the "Center for Safe Sport", new cases of abuse are regularly made public. They show how urgently Germany needs a central contact point for violent crimes in sport.
Doped into the dark blue hole
Sportschau - 04.02.2024
Freediving is one of the most dangerous extreme sports in the world. Now the scene is struggling with a doping problem. The world association is alarmed, not least because the number of accidents, some of which are life-threatening, is rising rapidly. Is there a connection?
Instagram photo puts boxer Sturm in trouble
Sportschau - 17.12.2023
An apparently carelessly posted photo showing them during an infusion may have criminal consequences for professional boxer Felix Sturm and a naturopath. Research by the ARD doping editorial team shows that the level of ignorance regarding prohibited infusions appears to be alarming in the sports scene.
"Doping substances for the whole world"
Sportschau - 04.06.2023
Follow-up research by the ARD doping editorial team on the documentary "Doping Top Secret: Dealer" about the Danish wholesaler Jacob Sporon-Fiedler provides insights into the huge extent of his steroid business .
Million dollar lawsuit against the German swimming association
Sportschau - 19.03.2023
Former water diver Jan Hempel, who suffered years of sexual assault from his trainer, is suing the German Swimming Association for compensation and damages.
OLDER PRODUCTIONS
Weightlifter Vicky Schlittig - German doping case before spectacular turn
Sportschau - 11.09.2022
The young German weightlifter Vicky Schlittig had to appear in court because of a positive doping test. The scientific study on attack scenarios, which was the subject of the EyeOpening.Media film "Guilty", had a significant influence on the case - and left the anti-doping institutions struggling to explain themselves.
Modern Pentathlon - Maintaining Power During the Acid Test
Sportschau - 22.05.2022
While modern pentathlon is fighting for survival as an Olympic sport, the association's president, Klaus Schormann, is now making negative headlines because of his leadership style. In this article, EyeOpening.Media reports exclusively on one of the largest uprisings by athletes against a world association.
RED-S - The Creeping Danger
Sportschau - 07.11.2021
The lighter and more athletic, the better: Behind this formula for success in sport worldwide lies a largely ignored, highly dangerous problem. In this article for the ARD Sportschau, EyeOpening.Media reports on the RED-S syndrome, the "relative energy deficit in sport" and its dangerous consequences.
The long breath of Operation Aderlass
Sportschau - 24.01.2021
In spring 2019, investigators uncovered an entire doping network during the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld - thanks in part to research by EyeOpening.Media. At the center was Erfurt doctor Mark Schmidt, who was ultimately sentenced to almost five years in prison in January 2021. It was the largest doping trial since the introduction of the Anti-Doping Act in 2015.
Canoeist and refugee Saeid Fazloula -
Sports-political farce destroys dream of Olympics
Sportschau - 27.09.2020 / WDR Sport Inside - 30.09.2020
In 2015, Iranian canoeist Saeid Fazloula fled to Germany via the so-called Balkan route. For almost five years, he fought for a place on the IOC refugee team at the Olympics. A fight against rules and officials that he almost thought he had lost. It was only after a report by EyeOpening.Media that things started to move.
Nike in trouble - discontinuation of the "Oregon Project"
WDR Sport Inside - November 19, 2019
In Germany, Nike's Oregon Project is best known for record-breaking runner Konstanze Klosterhalfen, who had been part of her sponsor's training group since 2018. However, after the controversial Nike head coach was banned for life for doping, the sporting goods manufacturer had to stop its controversial project. In this article, EyeOpening.Media shows that Salazar was even more involved in dubious practices than initially assumed.
Scandals in Athletics: The Chronicles of the Unbelievable
sportschau.de - June 30, 2019
For four years, the public prosecutors in Paris have investigated into the scandals in Athletics surrounding the World Federation's President Lamine Diack and his son Papa Massata. The indictment documents the unbelievable things that these two sports officials have been up to behind the scenes.
A question of faith – Danilo Hondo and blood doping
WDR Sport Inside - May 15, 2019
Danilo Hondo's doping confession surrounding the Erfurt case is opening up old wounds in cycling.
Cycling: Ex-Pro Hondo from Cottbus confesses to doping
ARD Sportschau - May 12, 2019
Former Telekom-professional Danilo Hondo is talking about his doping past as a customer of the doping doctor from Erfurt in 2011 exclusively on ARD. He has been working successfully as a coach in Switzerland. Now his life is lying in ruins.
Bloody Business - Seefeld and its aftermath
ARD Sportschau - March 3, 2019
Just a few weeks after the release of "Confessions", investigators in Austria and Germany organized an international raid in the police "Operation Aderlass" on Feb 27, 2019. It was a direct consequence of EyeOpening.Media's research which was published in the film.