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EPISODE · Jun 15, 2025 · 41 MIN

History's Biggest Doping Program - Sports Bizarre

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

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. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: A weekly bonus podcast Access to all past episodes Exclusive behind-the-scenes access Access to the members-only chatroom Ability to vote on future episodes Early access to any live show tickets 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.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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