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Sporting Witness: 14/11/2015 00:20 GMT: Doping in East Germany

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Doping in East Germany

14/11/2015 00:20 GMT

14/11/2015 00:20 GMT: Doping in East Germany

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Two former athletes describe the human cost of the Communist nation's drugs programme.

Two former athletes describe the human cost of the Communist nation's drugs programme

In the 1970s and 80s, Communist East Germany dominated athletics -- thanks to the most sophisticated doping programme in the history of sport. The programme had a lasting physical and psychological impact on many East German competitors. Two of them, sprinter Ines Geipel and shot-putter Andreas Krieger, talk to Mike Costello for Sporting Witness. This material was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live.

(Photo: Heidi Krieger, later Andreas Krieger. Credit: Ulstein Bild/Getty Images)

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