German Olympic Team Faces Crisis As Drugged Athletes Sue

Scotland on Sunday › October 31, 2005

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GERMANY'S Olympic team faces a financial crisis because of a GBP 1m lawsuit by former East German athletes who were forcibly drugged by their Communist masters.

A 36-year-old former women's World Championship swimmer, Karen Knig, will this week take her case to a Berlin court as the first of 137 pursuers who claim they were forced to take performance- enhancing drugs by the former East German sports system in the 1980s.

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German Olympic Team Faces Crisis As Drugged Athletes Sue

The case is a final lap in a tortuous battle being fought through the German legal system amid arguments that the athletes' cases were time-barred or that the nation's present Olympic committee...

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