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Article: GROUP OF EAST GERMAN COACHES CONFIRMS STEROID USE.(Sports)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 3, 1991
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Byline: Michael Janofsky The New York Times
The stunning domination of international swimming by East German women for nearly two decades was built upon an organized system of anabolic-steroid use, a group of 20 former East German coaches confirmed Monday.
Their admission, provided to reporters in Bonn, is the latest evidence - and some of the most convincing - that senior sports administrators of the now-dissolved Communist state made performance-enhancing drugs a critical part of the training programs for the country's elite athletes.
"We confirm that anabolic steroids were used in former East German swimming," the coaches said in a signed ...