Lewis had tested positive at the US Olympic trials for three illegal stimulants. ibid.
Unbelievable! 9.79! ibid. race commentary
No-one can take it away from me. ibid. Ben’s after-race interview
I said, Well they finally got me. ibid. Ben
The biggest drugs story in Olympics history. ibid. news
Dear Sir, I object strongly to the obvious athletic turn this show has now taken. Monty Python’s Flying Circus s1e11: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom, letter of protest, BBC 1969
London has been here before and is well versed how to rise to the occasion. Five years have passed since London 2012 but the memory of those golden moments still shines brightly. Never before had Britain been so successful at an Olympics. Day after day of triumph almost blurring into one. But above all others one Saturday will come to be remembered. Britain was transfixed as the minutes ticked by. As one dream-like moment unfolded into another. Heroes of Super Saturday: Jess, Mo & Greg, BBC 2017
Mo Farrah has become a global star … ‘I do average 120 miles a week.’ ibid.
Beijing offered Mo another opportunity to continue his winning streak. But he had endured a turbulent summer. ibid.
Mo’s ambition on Rio would be to defend an Olympic double in two gruelling long distance events. ibid.
No-one in the history of humanity has run as fast as Usain Bolt. I Am Bolt, BBC 2017
‘He writes his own history with every stride he takes.’ ibid. Steve Cram’s commentary
‘The older I get the less fun it is.’ ibid. Usain
Lanced! Armstrong to be striped of 7 Tour wins. Icarus ***** 2017, The New York Post front page
Teammates Testify Against Armstrong. ibid. newspaper headline
Unfortunately the drugs work. ibid. tester
We talk a few times. He’s in Moscow. And that set off this whole chain of events. ibid.
You should be able to see a 15-20% improvement. ibid. supervisor
German TV Alleges 99% of Russian Olympians Doping. ibid. newspaper headlines
It is not too good to show our camera to them. ibid. at Russian lab
‘Overwhelming portions of the allegations made on the ARD programme have been found by the Independent Commission to be true. It’s worse than we thought.’ ibid. Dick Pound, press conference
‘State-sponsored doping.’ ibid. news
CNN Visits Secretive Russian Lab. ibid. CNN report
‘I need to escape and to walk the walk.’ ibid. Russian dude
‘I was part of a system.’ ibid.
May 7-10 2016: Grigory spends three days with the US Department of Justice providing detailed information about state-sponsored doping in Russia. ibid. caption
‘Our KGB officers brought all the clean urines of our athletes.’ ibid. Russian dude
‘Putin was very much happy.’ ibid.
‘Putin will kill me.’ ibid.
May 17 2016: The US Department of Justice officially launches an investigation into Russian doping allegations based on Grigory’s testimony. ibid. caption
There never was anti-doping in Russia. ibid.
This is Yuliya Stepanova and Vitaliy Stepanov and their small son Robert. In their native Russia they don’t feel safe any more. Because they’ve given away a secret. The Secrets of Doping: How Russia Makes Its Winners, ARD 2015
Vitaliy Stepanov loves his job at the Russian Anti-Doping Agency. ibid.
‘You must dope. That’s how it’s done in Russia.’ ibid. Vitaliy
The fairytale of clean sport will be refuted for all time. ibid.
I even receive audio files of conversations between top coaches and athletes. ibid.
‘The athlete has no choice.’ ibid. coach
It looks increasingly like a system. ibid.
RUSADA is part of the fraud scheme which he experienced as an employee. ibid.
I now receive growing evidence from Russian informants. ibid.
Fear and intimidation appear to belong to the system. ibid.
On a sunlit September afternoon in 1988 Ben Johnson stepped up to his blocks for the most important race of his life: the Olympic 100m final. Johnson symbolized the Canadian dream, the shy immigrant from Jamaica whose genius was discovered on the frozen running tracks of Canada. Johnson ran on time but he also ran on a lie: for years he had used steroids to boost his performance. And in 46 strides he guaranteed himself sporting immortality by running faster than any man in history. Two days later Johnson was at the centre of the biggest scandal in the modern Olympiad. Reputations s8e3: Ben Johnson: Lost Seoul, BBC 2001
[Charlie] Francis made an important discovery: performance enhancing drugs were a fundamental part of their [East Germany] success. ibid.
Carl Lewis: he was quicker and smarter. ibid.
[George] Astaphan gave Johnson a new steroid, a veterinary product designed to boost an animal’s body. ibid.
‘This is evil that’s being exposed.’ ibid. Ron Pickering
The more he denied the bigger the lie became. ibid.
Six months ago I got into a Twitter row that I wasn’t prepared for. I posted comments and wrote a newspaper article about my issue with transgender competitors in women’s sports. It started a public spat between me and a trans-cyclist. The Trans Women Athlete Dispute with Martina Navratilova, BBC 2019
The idea that I hurt people with my comments – that bothers me. ibid.
I’m concerned that in the future trans women athletes who have not had surgery or hormone treatment could compete against women based simply on how they identify. ibid.
A growing number of trans-female athletes have been competing at the highest level. ibid.
Just when you thought the whole testosterone debate couldn’t get any trickier, along comes the recent controversy surround the Olympic champion Caster Semenya. ibid.
Wired to fourteen channels of body function, an experimental subject practices biofeedback. Using biofeedback people reduce muscular tension, redirect blood flow, and perform feats previously thought impossible. Might we one day create super-athletes? Could biofeedback bring about a revolution in human health? In Search of s6e2 … Biofeedback, 1981
My name is Mark Daly – I’m a keen athlete and currently I’m training hard. But I’m also an investigative journalist and for more than a year I’ve been immersed in a story about drugs and athletics. Panorama, Mark Daly, Catch Me If You Can, BBC 2015
The only way I could truly understand it was to become a doper myself. ibid.
Fresh as a daisy ... I feel as though the drugs have worked. ibid.
7% ... The margins are huge. ibid.
I had received a tip-off about a famous coach with strong links to the UK ... Alberto Salazar. ibid.
The biggest scandal in world sport … Lord Coe’s presidency of world Athletics is beset by questions. Panorama: Seb Coe and the Corruption Scandal, BBC 2016
We uncover Lord Coe’s links to the man at the centre of the corruption scandal. ibid.
A German documentary made here in Berlin exposed state-sponsored doping of Russian athletes. ibid.
Independent report: Corruption and Bribery at the highest level of the IAAF. ibid.
Male elite athletes are sixteen times more likely to develop an eating disorder than non-athletes. Panorama: Men, Boys & Eating Disorders, BBC 2017
Throughout my sporting career I was harbouring a secret: an eating disorder I now believe started as anorexia later developing into bulimia. And I am not the only one in sport to have gone through this. Panorama: Sport’s Hidden Crisis, BBC 2020, Colin Jackson reporting
How did it go from this [gold medal Olympics] to this: ‘I haven’t done anything, but my name is getting dragged through the mud.’ Tonight: the downfall of Alberto Salazar who coached Sir Mo Farah to glory. A coach that wanted to win at all costs. We reveal new evidence about Salazar, and fresh questions about Salazar’s relationship with Britain’s greatest ever track athlete. Panorama: Mo Farah & the Salazar Scandal, BBC 2020