Ralf Meutgens

Ralf Meutgens (born September 4, 1959 in Düsseldorf ) is a German journalist and author. His specialty is doping and cycling . Meutgens has been working as a freelance journalist for Spiegel , FAZ , Süddeutsche Zeitung , taz and Deutschlandfunk since the 1990s . Because of his detailed knowledge, he is one of the most renowned German journalists on the subject of doping. "A man possessed who has meticulously followed the doping mafia like no other for years," says the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

education and profession

Meutgens has long been associated with cycling. He was an amateur driver until the mid-1980s. The owner of the Trainer A license was also an honorary trainer in the North Rhine-Westphalia Cycling Association and a speaker in the trainer training of the Association of German Cyclists . He studied German and sports science in Düsseldorf and Cologne.

As a freelance journalist, he worked in the fields of sports, medicine and health. He works part-time in the editorial team of the program "Monitor" and works as a journalist for Arte and Deutschlandfunk. He was a member of the cycling editorial team of SAT.1 .

Position on doping

Meutgens is considered a sharp critic of the structures of cycling. "Doping is inherent in the system," he told spiegel-online.de, "cleaning would require the replacement of almost all people involved in professional cycling".

For the purpose of a more effective prosecution of doping sinners, Meutgens is in favor of an anti-doping law, such as that in Italy or France. In addition, Meutgens criticizes a lack of critical distance some media representatives from the active. In particular, the cooperation between the T-Mobile team and ARD provoked his criticism.

Awards

• Two-time prize winner in the Association of German Sport Journalists (VDS).
• First prize in the article competition among all articles and newspapers from 1998 with the article Schwarze Schatten, yellow jersey about the "Tour '98" in Tagesspiegel Berlin, page 3
• Oldenburger Feder 2004 Journalism Award of EWE AG
• Sparkasse Prize for Sports Journalism 2005
• As a member of the team of authors for the WDR program Sport Inside, nominated for the German Television Prize 2009 (Best Sports Program) and the Grimme Prize 2017

Works

• Doping in cycling , Verlag Delius Klasing, 2007. ISBN 3768852458
• Sports pedagogy as a humanistic challenge - Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Treutlein, Shaker Verlag, 2011, (co-editor) ISBN 978-3-8322-9798-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FAS of May 27, 2007
2. ↑ Vita on msporting.com accessed on February 6, 2013
3. ↑ spiegel.de of May 10, 2007: Cartel of the Defiled
4. ↑ intrepoool.tv of June 3, 2006: "Blood doping in Germany not punishable" ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• "As incomplete as a Swiss cheese" - Interview ARD on the Tour de France 2007 ( Memento from July 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• "Epo producer as a promoter of cycling", FAZ from May 11, 2007
• Interview NGZ-online from May 8, 2007
• Interview ntv from May 26, 2007
• "Cartel of the Tainted - SPIEGEL online from May 10, 2007
• “A blessing that became a curse” - taz of November 5, 2005, p. 23
• "Ideal world in magenta" - FAZ from April 12, 2005, page 36