GERMAN BROADCASTER NAILED FOR FALSE SPORTS DOPING REPORTAGE
January 21st 2008 11:22
Deutsche Well reports that biathlon athletes linked to a doping scandal were shown to be falsely accused when German public broadcaster ARD apologised for the accusations made earlier this week, which it admitted had no foundation in fact.
ARD initially reported that up to 30 athletes, many of them from Germany and active at the current biathlon World Cup in Anterselva, were involved in illicit blood-doping activities revolving around the Austrian blood bank Humanplasma, German public broadcaster ARD apologised for the accusations made earlier this week.
Presenter Michael Antwerpes, speaking ‘in the name of ARD’ at the games, said the broadcaster was not justified in making general allegations without presenting any facts. German Ski Federation spokesman Stefan Schwarzbach said ‘the alleged doping affair’ had now become ‘more or less a media affair.’
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