BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Interior Ministry says it will publish a report that claims West Germany’s athletes were systematically doped with government backing for years.
Ministry spokesman Philipp Spauschus says the privacy issues that had delayed the publication of the report titled “Doping in Germany from 1950 to today” have been cleared, though he didn’t say whether passages would be redacted.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper published details from the unreleased report on Saturday, alleging that the state financed experiments with performance-enhancing substances going back to 1970 at least.
Conducted by researchers under the leadership of Giselher Spitzer at Berlin’s Humboldt University, the study was initiated by the German Olympic Sports Confederation in 2008 and commissioned by the Federal Institute of Sport Science, which provided about 525,000 euros ($70,000) toward it.
