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Article: EAST GERMAN SPORTS DOPING BEING PROBED.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 4, 1997
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She was 5 years old when she learned to swim, and won her first competition a year later. Then came the special sport school, and later the candy boxes filled with brightly colored pills instead of chocolates.
``Every athlete had his box, with his name on it, and these tablets were inside, a small handful,'' the former East German swimmer, Catherine Menschner, recalled.
``As a rule, they had to be taken in front of the coach's eyes. They told our parents they were vitamins, which was strange because we weren't even allowed to take them into the locker room.''
Soon, she and the other 11-year-old girls were knocking off 100 pushups and lifting ...