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Article: BLOWN OUT OF THE WATER SWIM MAGAZINE SAYS EAST GERMAN WOMEN WERE LOADED WITH STEROIDS.(SPORTS)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- December 6, 1994
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Byline: LARRY SIDDONS Associated Press
NEW YORK Olympic star Kristin Otto and other members of East Germany's record-shattering women's swimming teams were part of a systematic doping program, according to secret police records published in an American magazine.
The December issue of Swimming World carries results from the Stasi, the East German secret police, showing Otto, winner of six gold medals at the 1988 Olympics, with steroid levels almost three times the limit needed to trigger a positive result.
It also quoted a chemist familiar with the Stasi documents as saying they prove that every top East German athlete used ...