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Faust's gold : inside the East German doping machine / Steven Ungerleider.
- Title
- Faust's gold : inside the East German doping machine / Steven Ungerleider.
- Author
- Ungerleider, Steven.
- Publication
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2001.
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- Description
- xvi, 234 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Faust's Gold draws on the revelations of the ongoing trials of former GDR coaches, doctors, and sports officials who have now confessed to conducting ruthless medical experiments on young and talented athletes selected for Olympic training camps. It also draws on the extensive research of Brigitte Berendonk, who escaped from East Germany to begin a decade-long crusade to bring justice to her fellow athletes, and that of her husband, Professor Werner Franke. Berendonk's story, and those of her colleagues in the GDR, offers a unique insight into a bizarre regime."--Jacket.
- "For nearly twenty-five years, East Germany's corrupt sports organization dominated international athletics. While the German Democratic Republic's secret "State Plan" was in effect, more than ten thousand unsuspecting young athletes - some as young as twelve years old - were given massive doses of performance-enhancing anabolic steroids. These athletes achieved miraculous success in international competition, including the Olympics, but for many of them, their physical and emotional health was permanently damaged."
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0312269773
- LCCN
- ^^2001017429
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library