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Frischknecht looks back on the doping era in tears

As part of the sports series "Champion of Champions", several former top athletes show their personal side. These include Thomas Frischknecht, who looks back in tears on the doping-contaminated era of cycling.

In this interview worth watching, Frischknecht looks back to the time before the turn of the millennium when the Epo wave swept over road cycling and also affected mountain biking. Frischknecht, the real dominator of his time, saw himself relegated to the second tier virtually overnight. The TV report shows how strongly this has affected him to this day. 

The sequence is part of episode 5 of the second season of "Champion of Champions" and is currently being broadcast on Swiss television. It is already available online in advance. Together with wrestling king Christian Stucki, rowing world champion Jeannine Gmelin and curling world champion Miriam Ott, Frischknecht competes in various disciplines. The core of the program is rather irrelevant, much more interesting are the personal conversations it contains. The athletes reflect on their past sporting careers on the sofa and provide a personal, almost intimate insight into their time as world-class athletes.

Frischknecht's look back at her own career:


Further information on the TV series "Champion of Champions" can be found at:
srf.ch/play/tv/broadcast/champion-of-champions

 


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