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Health & Fitness
Fitness & Sports
Doping victims furious at 'cover-up' of GDR past
With the upcoming anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain, athletes who were put through a GDR doping program are angry at Germany’s unwillingness to discuss their controversial history.Former East German track-and-field stars insist there is a "cover-up" conspiracy after five athletics coaches admitted being part of a doping program behind the former Iron Curtain.
With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall set to be commemorated in November, the coaches’ confession is an uncomfortable reminder for many here of life in the GDR under the former communist regime.
It is estimated up to 9,000 East German athletes were doped under a program that ran from 1972 to 1989.
Many of the athletes were given the pills as minors and insist they had no idea the effect they would have in later life.
During that period, the GDR won 384 Olympic medals and finished second in the medal table at three of the four Summer Games in which its athletes took part.
But a number of athletes who were in the program later developed health problems, including cancer, ovarian cysts and liver dysfunction, while some gave birth to babies who were blind or had club feet.
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