German Sports, Doping, and Politics
Krüger, Michael / Becker, Christian / Nielsen, Stefan In the Cold War era, sport was not just a symbol of the power and strength of a nation-state, but of certain ideological systems of politics. With the pressure for athletes to succeed at its zenith, many East German athletes were given anabolic steroids by their country s own sport federation. While doping in East Germany has been intensely researched in the past decades, the state of West German athletics during this time has remained largely...