Ever since the never-ending scandal about the Spanish doping-doctor Fuentes and his honourable clients, even the most stubborn fans now have to admit that doping rules professional sport. It is a universal alliance of wealthy sponsors and tv broadcasters, sport officials with high hopes and ruthless managers and, of course, trainers and athletes longing for success. This is the dead end of sports.

At least after all the revelations and confessions the cartel of blood punchers and urine falsifications has to accept criticisms. Yet the observers of the scene believe that the sport audience does not really care much about lethal business of dopers. All they want are heroes, bloood and circus. At any cost.

„Blood and Circus“ analyses the landmarks of doping and unmasks the common thesis of single abusers. Witnesses confirm that even doping tests are not a guarantee for clean sport. On the contrary: precisely because tests are inadequate and can be circumvented, they offer the doping clan and backers the perfect alibi for cover-ups.



In the first episode we talk to: sprinter Ben Johnson and his trainer Charlie Francis, the doped 100m and 200m world champion sprinter Kelli White, professional cyclists Jörg Jaksche and Frankie Andreu, the founder of the the Doping-Laboratories BALCO Victor Conte, doping-tester Victor Uralets, the Head of the World Anti Doping Agency WADA IOC member Richard Pound, the long-time US doping searcher Wade Exum, the doctor of the American Olympic committee Robert Voy, the journalist and Florence-Griffith-Joyner´s expert Kristina Rebelo and the German doping expert professor Werner Franke.