Faust's Gold: Inside The East German Doping Machine
 

Faust's Gold: Inside The East German Doping Machine

by Steven Ungerleider


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... (read more)

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If you remember those cookie-cutter East German Olympic athletes from the 1970s, you may find Ungerleider's account of how they got that way fascinating. It's a briskly written account backed with solid research and telling insights. Given all the steroid scandals in sports today, it's still timely, too.

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