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History's Biggest Doping Program - Sports Bizarre
Season 4 · Episode 37

History's Biggest Doping Program - Sports Bizarre

Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily · Sport Bizarre

June 15, 202541m 32s

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Show Notes

In this episode of Sports Bizarre, Titus and Mick discuss the biggest doping program in the history of sport. It was East Germany's State Plan 14.25, a strategy to turn an entire state into one big doping program to achieve sporting glory.

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Research

There's a lot written on this topic, I covered it in my book Cheat, and a lot of the more recent events are covered in the German press.

The best book on it I found was Faust's Gold: inside the east german doping machine by Steven Ungerleider. It's got some great chapters on how the files on the program were discovered.

 

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