Sport's Greatest Cover-Up, State Plan 14.25
May 19, 2010 5:44:39 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on May 19, 2010 5:44:39 GMT -8
This was interesting... man oh man.
Sport's Greatest Cover-Up: Part One (26 min)
excerpt... At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, East Germany won 25 medals. Twenty years later in Seoul, the Soviet Union headed the medals table, but second was not the USA but a nation of just 17 million people - the German Democratic Republic.
To achieve this success, the East German state ensured that it had the best of everything - facilities and equipment, coaching and medical back-up, psychological testing and dietary supplements. However, it was the scale of state sponsored doping - State Plan 14.25 - that set East Germany apart from any other sporting nation.
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/science/2009/08/090805_discovery_sports_cover_up_one.shtml
The alarming thing, and there were a lot of alarming things in this doc, from dead and damaged athletes to coaches now working in Italy, Australia, UK AND the teams of scientists and medical doctors in "State Plan 14.25" who performed the "work" of making a "perfect athlete" - the IOC turned its eye, during its time of commercial development for ratings. It's the story everyone knows and neglects.
When Germany reunified, most of the information was shredded and destroyed, but there was some information and an inquiry since. The doctors appeared to have left Germany and work elsewhere now. I must say, the female Eastern bloc athletes in the day, 1970s, looked quite husky. In this doc, one female track & field athlete, who was administered durgs in the 1970s, wanted her world record rescinded; she had a brick thrown in her window at her home. Now she's a lot more quiet about it.
The biggest question: these are medical doctors.
Sport's Greatest Cover-Up: Part One (26 min)
excerpt... At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, East Germany won 25 medals. Twenty years later in Seoul, the Soviet Union headed the medals table, but second was not the USA but a nation of just 17 million people - the German Democratic Republic.
To achieve this success, the East German state ensured that it had the best of everything - facilities and equipment, coaching and medical back-up, psychological testing and dietary supplements. However, it was the scale of state sponsored doping - State Plan 14.25 - that set East Germany apart from any other sporting nation.
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/science/2009/08/090805_discovery_sports_cover_up_one.shtml
The alarming thing, and there were a lot of alarming things in this doc, from dead and damaged athletes to coaches now working in Italy, Australia, UK AND the teams of scientists and medical doctors in "State Plan 14.25" who performed the "work" of making a "perfect athlete" - the IOC turned its eye, during its time of commercial development for ratings. It's the story everyone knows and neglects.
When Germany reunified, most of the information was shredded and destroyed, but there was some information and an inquiry since. The doctors appeared to have left Germany and work elsewhere now. I must say, the female Eastern bloc athletes in the day, 1970s, looked quite husky. In this doc, one female track & field athlete, who was administered durgs in the 1970s, wanted her world record rescinded; she had a brick thrown in her window at her home. Now she's a lot more quiet about it.
The biggest question: these are medical doctors.