Overview

• Multiple athletes, including World Championships hurdler Eileen Demes, describe sexualized boundary violations by coaches, in some cases when they were minors.
• The German Athletics Federation revoked one coaching license and opened proceedings to strip an A-license in another case following the documentary.
• Regional officials escalated cases to law enforcement, with the Lower Saxony federation filing a criminal complaint and prosecutors already engaged in separate matters.
• A Berlin coach has been convicted and given a two-year suspended sentence, and a trial in Mannheim is ongoing over allegations of intimate touching during massages.
• Reports cite systemic protection gaps that let accused coaches move between clubs, with cases spanning Darmstadt, Hannover, Mannheim and Berlin, and a Hannover coach denying claims that include pressured pill-taking and physical assault.