Secrets of the Dead: Doping For Gold
2009 Documentary/Sports Not Rated 60 Minutes
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In the 1970s, female East German athletes came from nowhere to dominate international sport. But behind their success lay a secret, a state-sponsored doping program that distributed untested steroids and male hormones to athletes as young as age 12. Many of these girls had no knowledge that they were being doped, and now, as grown women (and men), their broken bodies and damaged psyches bear witness to the cruelty of a government that pursued international glory and gold at the expense of its most acclaimed citizens.
Not Rated.
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