Company: EyeOpening. Media GmbH
Country: GERMANY
Section: SPORT & SOCIETY
Discipline: Olympic disciplines
Year: 2017
Director: Hajo Seppelt
Editing: Ramsey Diaz, Daniel Castro, Nina Meindl, Hans-Jürgen Büsch
Soundtrack: Sound design: Ramesey Diaz; Sound mixing: Markus Glunz
Voice Off: Erik Hansen
Producer: Ulf Ullrich
CoProducer: Massud Abedi
Time: 35 min
Synopsis
Only a few weeks before the major winter sports event of 2018 – the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang – new research by ARD’s editorial team on doping caused turmoil in the world of sports: the systematic doping of Russian athletes in Sochi in 2014 would be ordered from the highest level in Russia, by President Vladimir Putin himself, according to what the chief witness Grigory Rodchenkov claims. The biggest sporting fraud in recent history, the systematic swapping of the doping samples from Russian athletes.