Tainted Blood
The Untold Story of the 1984 Olympic Blood Doping Scandal
Tainted Blood
About Tainted Blood
In a nearly forgotten incident, seven members of the US cycling team blood doped at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles to earn the first US cycling medals since the 1912 Olympics.
Told through the voices of Olympic athletes, coaches, doctors, and sports historians, Tainted Blood explores the secret world where athletes push themselves to the precipice and are driven by coaches with their own Olympic-fueled dreams.
Screenings
Feb. 6
Full Cylcle Bike Shop
Boulder, CO
March 10
Cal State University - Fullerton
Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research Conference
April 12
University of Texas-Austin
Moody College of Communications
Nov. 22
Kenya International Sports Film Festival
Nairobi, Kenya
Press
Featured in the Los Angels Post-Examiner article "Tainted Blood Explores Los Angeles Doping Scandal"
Featured in the Morning Call article "Documentary Explores 1984 Olympic Cycling Scandal, Which Cycling Community was Reluctant to Revisit"
Facebook Live interview with Kevin Robinson for the University of Texas Center for Sports Communication and Media
Interview on NPR
Interview for outspokencyclist.com
Interview for packfiller.com
Interview with Chris Reid for Film Festival Today
Interview for The Native Society
Press
About Jill
Filmmaker and journalist Jill Yesko is a former cyclist who represented the United States in the 1983 World University Games and competed in the Olympic Trials.
Jill is a Fellow at the Center for Sports Communication & Media, Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas.
Her writing has appeared in Women's Sports & Fitness, Shape, Fitness Swimmer, and numerous other magazines. She is the author of the acclaimed crime fiction novels and has been profiled in O, the Oprah magazine.
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