Hajo Seppelt was born on 1963 and is a German journalist and author.
11 Facts About Hajo Seppelt
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Hajo Seppelt studied sports, social studies, journalism and French at the Free University of Berlin for a few semesters but did not complete a degree.
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Since 1985, Hajo Seppelt has worked as a sports reporter for Germany's premier public broadcaster ARD.
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Hajo Seppelt has worked for the Berlin public broadcaster Sender Freies Berlin and its 2003 successor Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.
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Hajo Seppelt said that this was in reaction to a private email, in which he criticized ARD's uncritical reporting on doping, becoming public.
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Together with former Canadian swimmer Karin Helmstaedt, Hajo Seppelt made the documentary film Staatsgeheimnis Kinderdoping about the perpetrators and victims of doping in East German swimming.
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In 2006, Hajo Seppelt reported extensively about the doping problem in cycling.
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Parallel with the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, ARD broadcast the 45-minute-documentary Olympia im Reich der Mittel: Doping in China, which Hajo Seppelt made with Jo Goll.
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Hajo Seppelt suggests the International Association of Athletics Federations isn't doing enough to address the problem of doping in endurance disciplines.
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Hajo Seppelt added his voice to the controversy about the ROC doping issue at the Figure skating competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Hajo Seppelt voiced the opinion, supporting reports submitted by WADA to the preliminary hearings with Valieva, that the coincidence of Valieva's assertion to have accidentally been exposed to her grandfather's heart medicine while admitting to taking other similar supplements used for heart endurance should require further investigation.