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Given the long history of doping in sport, the title of Five’s The Great Olympic Drug Scandal: Revealed didn’t give much away. In fact, the programme turned out to be about perhaps the greatest scandal of them all: how for nearly 20 years East Germany fed steroids to thousands of young athletes without them knowing it. By quoting chapter and verse so assiduously, the result made a familiar story feel freshly horrifying.For a start, there was the sheer contempt with which this People’s Republic treated its people. Any youngsters who showed athletic promise did enjoy certain privileges. (“I got great food,” one told us last night, “bananas, oranges.”) Yet, the authorities were well aware that the accompanying drugs could have terrible side-effects – particularly on teenage women. And all this to spread a lie nobody believed anyway: that life in East Germany was good.After the Holocaust, you might have thought the next generation of German doctors would be – at the very least – uneasy about perverting medical science. Instead, it was doctors who ran the scheme and doled out the pills, earning a cash bonus whenever one of their victims won a medal. (It seems the DDR believed in capitalist incentives when it really mattered.) Their white coats also came in useful when reassuring worried parents about why their daughters were developing facial hair and deep voices.The final word went to Katharina Bullin, an ex-volleyball player, whose continuing symptoms include constant pain and looking like a man. “All I feel is fury,” she said – speaking, I suspect, for most of the last night’s viewers.
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Tópico: The Great Olympic Drug Scandal (2007) (Lido 1904 vezes)
