The PerformanceEnhancing Drug Controversy


             years now, certain countries such as the former nation of East Germany and the former
             U.S.S.R, as well as China, have been known to, or at least it has been highly suspected,
             that they contained a numerous amount of athletes who have taken
             performance-enhancing drugs leading up to and during Olympic competition. Currently,
             there is an investigation involving the coaches and athletes from East Germany who
             competed in the 1976 Olympics. As Don Kardong reports in Runner's World:
             A German investigator--searching for evidence for a criminal trial of four
             coaches and two doctors accused of giving steroids and other
             performance-enhancing drugs to unsuspecting athletes--had discovered 10
             volumes of secret Stasi police files documenting the East German doping
             program. Each athlete was coded by number, and among them was #62.
             Waldemar Cierpinski was a runner who won the marathon race in the 1976
             Olympics and thus pushed Don Kardong to come in fourth place instead of third, making
             ...

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