About 15,000 athletes from the former Eastern Germany have been drugged for years without their consent, with serious and lasting health damage. One of these is the boxer Andreas Warsewski.andreas Worski had the feeling that something was wrong in 1993, four years after the political change that overturned the communist regime of the Democratic Republic of Germany (RDA), Eastern Germany. “A doctor from the Bundeswehr hospital (German armed forces) asked me directly about drugs to improve sports performance. My answer was shrugged. I didn’t admit this idea, I never thought about it and I ignored it.”
More than four decades ago, the former boxer for 54 years has had serious consequences for his health, with pains day and night -starting from the left hand, which he used to give a handful, disabled. The image is aggravated by a serious depression. The former RDA athlete realized that these are consequences of forced doping in RDA, which made him start managing his past.
Start of the career at 13 years old
The consumption of Wearwski for elite sports began relatively late at the age of eleven. With talent, discipline and dedication to training, he became a district champion in his age group in Magdeburg only a year later.
At the age of thirteen, he joined the Berlin School of Sports and Youth Sports, a sports college in which the DDR formed his future medals, where Wendki lived until he reached the majority age and could only return home every four weeks.
Initially, his mother, a professional nurse, was strictly against boxing. The sport was too brutal for her. But Worski’s father and the district advice of his hometown convinced him.
Looking at the past, Worski includes his mother’s concern. Practicing boxing meant consent with physical aggression. If the strength of the blows had therefore increased with medicines, it would culminate in a real massacre of “body material”, in the words of the former boxer, with “steam hammer” blows on the head.
In the selection of young people of the RDA
He describes the period in which he lived from then on as “an extreme training field”, in which children and adolescents were required to achieve their maximum potential through medicines to improve performance, relieve pain and uninhibit under enormous psychological and physical pressure to show good performance.
Anyone who could not bear this or asked uncomfortable questions about tablets or injections has been expelled. In the eighth grade there were 21 young people and, in the tenth, only four.
Worski quickly achieved success and achieved the RDA youth team. Since 1986, he has regularly received several medicines in the form of blue, black and red capsules officially labeled “immunological vitamins and vitamins and agents”.
Today, Warsewski is convinced that these drugs included the anabolic agent for oral care, the anabolic steroid Mestanolone, the test of testing of the steroids 646 and psychotropic drugs designed to increase aggressiveness.
These drugs have shown that they are administered to the entire Worskowski training group during experimental training treatments under the direction of Hans Gürtler, a well -known Sports Doctor of Germany in the Eastern and owned by the state program of doping, which, since 1974, has become known as the “topic of the state plan 14.25”.
Brutal training sessions
Waswowski’s sport began at the age of 16 when it became half a trew of Eastern Germany and won international tournaments. It became a representative of the DDR, a “degree of training training”, as it was called at that moment.
A memorandum of Stasi, the secret police of the RDA has certified that Waswowki “determines the level of the performance of the DDR in its category of weight and weight”. The decision in his struggles has often been made by Knockout in the first round. “For over a year, nobody has been standing,” says the former boxer.
But, in parallel to his fame, his physical decline has increased. The pain has increased and their accumulated injuries: a broken nose, stitched eyelids and tear teeth.
This was an incessant training with a maximum of four sessions of two hours a day. In normal circumstances, this goes beyond the limits of physical resistance. “I couldn’t really continue, but I went on anyway. Today I would say [que aquelas eram] Brutal conditions, “recalls Wearwski.
He removed the pain by laying up to 20 painkillers per day, something that was not rare for him. To lose weight before a competition, he often had to make his training with gloves – punches with boxing gloves on special cushions held by the coach – in a sauna at a temperature of 90º C.
At the German university of physical culture and sports in Leipzig, he was even forced to pass out in a treadmill to test his performance limits. Only a belt prevented him from falling.
End of the career for political reasons
Worski’s sporting career ended abruptly at the age of 19, in the spring of 1989, more than six months before the fall of the Berlin wall. Officially, this is due to their health problems, in particular to eye problems. Worski, however, believes that the reason was the fact that he had refused to join the state of the Eastern German party, the socialist unit that party (Sed).
What had remained was a profession to which he had never graduated: the car mechanic. Worski had never seen the interior of a mechanical seminar, but Stasi provided him with a professional exam.
Officially, like all the competitive athletes of the DDR, it was considered amateur, as there were no official professional sports on the socialist regime.
After the German reunification – on October 3, 1990 – it was not until 1997 that some legal proceedings brought to light the extent of Germany doping owned by the state. In response, in 2002 several doping victims of victims were approved. Through them, about 2,000 people affected, including Wearwski, received unique payments of 10,500 euros each ($ 67,000).
These laws, however, have already expired. The current recognition procedures are complicated and involve enormous obstacles. The doping victim assistance association estimates about 15,000 people are affected.
Worski fights a monthly pension due to the damage caused to health. A request was rejected as it is difficult to demonstrate the damage caused by the Doping of the RDA. All his medical records have disappeared, which led him to present a cause.
“This is a great tragedy. The real problem for the affected people is that their medical records have disappeared and are in a difficult situation that will probably not be resolved with the amendment,” explains the Waswowki lawyer, Ingo Klee, referring to a new regulation that aims for the benefit of RDA doping victims.
The change in the law brings new hopes
Some former employees and doctors of the RDA sports system today occupy important positions, says Michael Lehner, president of the Doping Victims Association.
In the case of Wearwski, the head of medical services in the state of Brandenburg wrote a negative medical opinion. The expert worked at the RDA sports medicine service in the late 1980s, precisely the responsible institution of the practical implementation of forced doping. The doctor in question, however, denies any involvement in doping practices.
Lehner has hope in a new regulation that aims to reverse the burden of test: for some typical diseases, doping must be considered the cause. However, this is not automatic at all, Klee warns. Werewski’s lawyer says that social security agencies can still doubt the damage deriving from doping, for example, citing a family health story.
“It is not just the lack of evidence, health problems, financial difficulties – this is all disgusting and almost unbearable,” says Wexowski. Today he and his wife live an isolated life in his home in a forest. Some of their former training companions died. “In all funeral, everyone has the same thought: who will know what they gave us at that moment?”
Source: Terra
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