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| Product ID: | 9781801501354 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IN |
| Title: | Synthetic Medals |
| Subtitle: | East German Athletes' Journey to Hell |
| Authors: | Author: Joseph Tudor |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Biography: sport, Biography: sport, Collected biographies, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Olympic and Paralympic games, Collected biographies, The Cold War, Olympic & Paralympic games, East Germany, DDR, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating East German athletes were hailed as the product of a miracle machine. However, its engine hid a dark secret - a vicious doping system set up by the government itself. Young athletes took the 'blue pill', ignoring its real content. Today they are paying the price for that scheme. What pushed the East German government to sacrifice its citizens? In the early 1970s, the athletes of the German Democratic Republic started to achieve incredible sports results, winning medals and setting new world records with astonishing frequency. For many years, their sporting supremacy was hailed as a triumph of the socialist government''s commitment to scientific research and innovative training methods. But after the Cold War ended, the Stasi archives revealed a sinister secret behind the successes: a perverse doping system imposed by the government itself. Drugs were administered to young athletes, often without their consent, and the price their bodies are now paying is very high, both physically and mentally. Through the athletes'' personal stories, Synthetic Medals reveals the events that led to the discovery of the state-doping system and the subsequent trial. It also explores the state''s motives for this crime against its own people - people who were sacrificed on the altar of a distorted ideology, for the simple purpose of achieving glory on the international chessboard. |
| Imprint Name: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-01 |
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