Report: Doping was rampant in West Germany
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August 5, 2013, Monday
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A REPORT by German researchers claims that West Germany’s athletes were systematically doped with government backing from the 1970s.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper publicized details from the unpublished 800-page report titled “Doping in Germany from 1950 to today” on Saturday, revealing the extent to which West German politicians were allegedly willing to promote drug use among athletes to ensure international success.
The report was put together by researchers at Berlin’s Humboldt University on behalf of the German Olympic Sports Confederation. It was completed in April, but has yet to be published .
The report claims that for years the state financed experiments with performance-enhancing substances such as anabolic steroids, testosterone, estrogen or the blood-doping agent EPO. It did not state when the experiments ended.
It also states that an unspecified number of footballers in the 1954 World Cup-winning team received injections of the methamphetamine Pervitin, commonly known today as speed.
The authors say West German doping did not evolve as a response to East Germany’s systematic doping, but rather that it operated parallel to it.
The conditions for “systemic doping” were laid in 1970 when the Federal Institute of Sport Science was founded under jurisdiction of the Interior Ministry, which is still responsible for sports.
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