PHOENIX, Arizona, March 1. COMMENTS from around the world flooded into Swimming World Magazine after the posting of the exclusive article titled Shirley Babashoff Breaks 30-Year Silence on East Germany’s
By Craig Lord EDITOR'S Note: The following is a synopsis of the key figures, events and developments associated with the systematic doping program of East Germany. Victims of the system
By Craig Lord March 2. VICTIMS of East Germany's state-run doping program are fighting for 3.2 million euros in compensation from the drug company whose steroids fueled the former communist
By John Leonard FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., February 17. THE recent revelation that the East German sport doping criminal Helge Pfieffer is working in China raises a number of issues. Among
By Phillip Whitten PHOENIX, February 16. JOHN Coates, the head of the Australian Olympic Committee, stirred up a hornets’ nest today with his comments on Helge Pfeifer, the former head
By Fred Vergnoux LA ROCHE SUR YON, France, November 20. FRENCH superstar Laure Manaudou broke a 22 year-old world record today in the 1500 meter freestyle short course during a
By Craig Lord FRANKFURT, March 5. FORMER East German athletes who were victims of state organized doping can pursue the German Olympic Committee for damages after an appeal court ruling
BERLIN, Germany, October 22. MANFRED Ewald, who guided East German athletics to Olympic glory but was later convicted in a German court for presiding over the Communist country's doping programs,
BERLIN, Germany, October 22. THE German pharmaceutical group Schering-Jenapharm, which produced doping products for athletes for the former East Germany, will pay 25,000 euros ($25,000) to a fund to compensate
BERLIN, May 16. KAREN KOENIG, 33, a former East German swim star and European champion, is suing the German Olympic Committee (NOK) for damages, claiming that she was doped by
