At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City ... the author of “Faust’s God: Inside the East German Doping Machine” (2001) said in a phone interview. “But it was his wife who spurred ...

The East German doping system was comprehensive ... It mandated doping across all sports with the potential to deliver Olympic glory. Thousands of athletes, some as young as 12, were shovelled ...

In 1980, I missed out on a gold medal in Moscow, coming second behind an East German ... doping. It was cheating on an industrial scale to create the most successful medal factory in Olympic ...

No East German athlete failed an Olympic doping test in 1972, 1976 or 1980. The anabolic agents taken by the thousands of East German athletes in the 1970s and beyond weren’t even banned for the ...

East Germany won over 500 medals in Summer and Winter Olympics from 1968 to 1988 ... documents uncovered in the Operación Puerto doping case. A German court imposed a gag order on Franke after ...

From one generation to the next, swimmers from around the world have had to face competitors suspected, and often later ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In 1977, East German sprinter and 400m runner Marita Koch-Meier (nee Koch) started her ascent towards an athletic immortality, of sorts.

This tally highlighted the prevalence of drugtaking in Olympic sports, but also the success of anti-doping ... when East Germany merged with West Germany—but few East German athletes failed ...

From the East German's systematic ... Zhang was among those who failed the pre-Olympic doping test. Ledecky now knows what a swimmer like Shirley Babashoff, who was dubbed “Surly Shirley ...

The East German doping system was comprehensive ... It mandated doping across all sports with the potential to deliver Olympic glory. Thousands of athletes, some as young as 12, were shovelled ...