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The results were great for East Germany but absolutely devastating for the athletes
involved: While figures cannot be precise, the state inspired doping program affected
perhaps as many as 10,000 athletes. Not only was cheating at the center of the program
but the abuse of the athletes health was too. Female athletes, including adolescents,
experienced virilisation symptoms and possibly as many as 1,000 sportsmen and women
suffered serious and lasting physical and psychological damage
Systematic doping of athletes ended with the fall of communism in East Germany in 1989,
before German reunification a year later.