A while back, some coaches and sports executives acknowledged in a written letter that Germany allowed their athletes to use steroids in the Olympic Games some decades back. This explains a lot, since Germany dominated women’s swimming for more than two decades and went undefeated all that time. Again, it explains the fact that most of the German female athletes of the time had masculine physiques .None of them mentioned the athletes who participated in the use of steroids during the Olympic games in the 60’s and 70s/This was even more interesting since the Berlin wall was since up at the time. While West Germany did not do anything to discourage the use of steroids among their players, easy Germany funded and required them to use steroids to participate in the Olympic Games. It was seen as a necessary evil and coaches and trainers were used to achieve this end. Apparently, Germany wanted to win in the Olympic Games regardless of how they got the championships and their targets were the countries that did not use steroids with their players.
While they accepted that they used steroids with their athletes some time back, the side effects and the obvious changes in the health of their athletes has forced them to accept that there are some regrettable side effects when steroids are concerned.
This fact was further rubberstamped by a research what was done by Humboldt University and Muenster University, both of which conclude that performance-enhancing drugs and anabolic steroids were used by German athletes in the Olympic games of the 60s and 70s. The fact that the government of West Germany did not do anything about it means that they may not have been willing participants. Either way, rapid use of steroids by athletes means that there was knowledge by the government, only that they did not mind their use. The government even provided funds for studies into anabolic steroids, and they provided information to their athletes into how to make use of steroids and so forth.
The government of East Germany provided dianabol and deca-durabolin to their players to enhance their performance. This provision of steroids was sanctioned by the government and was a must for all the trainers who participated in the training of athletes. Even with the research into steroids that was available at the time, they may have been too preoccupied with winning that the side effects of steroids like dianabol and turabolin did not occur to them as being so important. Some of the side effects in men included water retention and gynecomstia. Virilization among the female athletes was a matter of fact and this should have been put into consideration by the governments of east and West Germany who were funding the use of steroids by their athletes to give them an unfair advantage.
