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Synthetic Medals - East German Athletes' Journey to Hell (Hardcover)
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Synthetic Medals - East German Athletes' Journey to Hell (Hardcover)
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In the early 1970s, the athletes of the German Democratic Republic
started to achieve incredible sports results, winning medals and
setting new world records with astonishing frequency. For many
years, their sporting supremacy was hailed as a triumph of the
socialist government's commitment to scientific research and
innovative training methods. But after the Cold War ended, the
Stasi archives revealed a sinister secret behind the successes: a
perverse doping system imposed by the government itself. Drugs were
administered to young athletes, often without their consent, and
the price their bodies are now paying is very high, both physically
and mentally. Through the athletes' personal stories, Synthetic
Medals reveals the events that led to the discovery of the
state-doping system and the subsequent trial. It also explores the
state's motives for this crime against its own people - people who
were sacrificed on the altar of a distorted ideology, for the
simple purpose of achieving glory on the international chessboard.
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