"In the 1970s, female East German athletes came from nowhere to dominate international sport. But behind their success lay a horrifying secret. Doping for Gold reveals the truth behind the biggest state-sponsored doping program the world has ever known, creating a timely perspective on today’s many sports drug scandals."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/episodes/doping-for-gold-2/42/
What I found very interesting is that two of the athletes' bodies, aside from sustaining numerous injuries, which were often ignored or not fully treated, developed such strong masculine characteristics that they have been ostracized by society, taunted as transvestites, transsexuals and homosexuals. The women themselves admit to having a difficult time coming to terms with their sexuality and gender identity, and one of them currently lives as a man and is in a relationship with another ex-athlete who in turn has been and continues to battle eating disorders.
Wow this documentary was very interesting. It's sickening to know how selfish and cruel these "doctors" were to the East German female athletes; the fact that they were giving them anabolic steroids without knowing the long term effects is insane, and all for the sake of winning gold medals. One is suffering miscarriages, the other completely transformed into a man, and these German physicians are not even being convicted...
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