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Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this bookuncovers why East Germany was for two decades runningone of themost successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics, exploring how the central elite sports system was beset by internal tensions and disputes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Contestation in the East German Sports System
- 1 The Political Use of Sport
- 2 The Development of East German Elite Sport
- 3 Finding and Promoting Young Sporting Talent
- 4 Drugs in Elite Sport in the German āDopingā Republic
- 5 Steroids and Justice
- 6 Football ā East German Sportās āProblem Childā
- 7 The āFlipsideā of the Sports āMiracleā: Declining Mass Sport Provision
- 8 The East German Model in Comparative Context
- 9 Key Themes and Findings
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index