State doping in the GDR

DaveyL
DaveyL Posts: 5,167
edited September 2010 in Pro race
http://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/other/ ... -programme

I guess they had to do it to keep up with those right-wing hierarchical/authoritarians...
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  • BikingBernie
    BikingBernie Posts: 2,163
    DaveyL wrote:
    http://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/other/article658662.ece/Ex-sports-official-admits-to-doping-programme

    I guess they had to do it to keep up with those right-wing hierarchical/authoritarians...
    Looks that way. :wink:

    In his forthcoming book, titled "Two sides of the medal" and made available to the German Press agency dpa ahead of publication on Thursday, Koehler said that East German officials decided to give their top athletes, including minors, doping substances from the early 1970s onwards because other countries were also cheating.

    "If East Germany wanted to remain competitive it had no choice but to allow the use of doping substances," Koehler said.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Surely this is up there with tales of catholicism associated with the Pope?
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    As someone once said (well, kinda) "I'm sorry for you. I’m sorry that you can’t dream big. I'm sorry you don't believe in moustachioed, be-willied women winning the 800m "
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Kléber wrote:
    Surely this is up there with tales of catholicism associated with the Pope?

    Yep, about as surprising as the steaming pile ursine faeces I found while riding through the woods last week.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Jokes aside, this has been admitted for quite some time. Werner Franke has done a lot here to shed light on the practices.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    BikingBernie wrote:
    DaveyL wrote:
    http://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/other/article658662.ece/Ex-sports-official-admits-to-doping-programme

    I guess they had to do it to keep up with those right-wing hierarchical/authoritarians...
    Looks that way. :wink:

    In his forthcoming book, titled "Two sides of the medal" and made available to the German Press agency dpa ahead of publication on Thursday, Koehler said that East German officials decided to give their top athletes, including minors, doping substances from the early 1970s onwards because other countries were also cheating.

    "If East Germany wanted to remain competitive it had no choice but to allow the use of doping substances," Koehler said.

    Looks like Soviet Union was the most dominant. Again, no doubt they were only doping to keep up with the capitalist running dogs.
    Le Blaireau (1)
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    LangerDan wrote:
    As someone once said (well, kinda) "I'm sorry for you. I’m sorry that you can’t dream big. I'm sorry you don't believe in moustachioed, be-willied women winning the 800m "

    You mean to say when this lady scorched to the 800m world record (which is the longest standing record) ) in 1983 you didn't believe it ?........for the life of me i can' think why :)

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    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    MG: you're not drawing conclusions without the full evidence in front of you, are you :wink:

    Anyway it's not the first admission. UK rowing coach Jurgen Grobler admitted over a decade ago to drug use in the East German system and many others have said similar things.
  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    This is a frankly alarming documentary from the "Secrets Of The Dead" series.

    It's talking about the systematic doping in East Germany of boys and girls as young as ten years of age.....!

    http://video.pbs.org/video/1239877248/
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • jim one
    jim one Posts: 183
    all show no go wrote:
    This is a frankly alarming documentary from the "Secrets Of The Dead" series.

    It's talking about the systematic doping in East Germany of boys and girls as young as ten years of age.....!

    http://video.pbs.org/video/1239877248/

    Enjoyed watching that video. Thank you very much for the link :)
  • csp
    csp Posts: 777
    She on the left, who is now him on the right, appeared in a Spiegel documentary many years ago. I wonder if she had ever taken any banned substances.

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