German sports, doping, and politics

About this book

Based on analyses of authentic documents and archives, German sports, doping and politics: a history of performance enhancement is a unique study spanning from 1950-2007. Translated form its original German and supplemented with new material written especially for an international audience, this book dresses many important questions about a topic with worldwide implications and reveals the truly remarkable processes of doping and anti-doping that have evolved since the Cold War.