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History’s most brutal Olympic doping scandal – and the women who paid the price

By Oliver Moody
The Times·
21 mins to read

Ahead of the Paris Olympics, Oliver Moody meets the female athletes of East Germany still living with the pain of winning at all costs.

In a maroon-carpeted conference room at a suburban Frankfurt hotel, 80 people are on their feet, clapping and swaying as a motivational speaking coach sings a cover of Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You spliced with unintelligibly fast German rap. One by one, speakers share their stories of overcoming humiliation or burnout in the corporate

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