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Dreschsler confirms East German past
LONDON (AP) -- Heike Drechsler, the two-time Olympic long jump champion, has acknowledged that she was administered drugs as part of East Germany's doping program. "Now we know they gave us drugs," Drechsler was quoted as saying Friday in The Times newspaper. "The doctors wrote it up. Now we can see how bad it was, but we have to learn from it. "When you went to the doctor and he said, `Take these, they are vitamins and they are good for you,' you believed him. I get sick when I think of it. But I did not question anything." Dreschler, 36, who won her second Olympic long jump gold in Sydney, was in Glasgow on Tuesday to promote her scheduled appearance at an international indoor meet on March 18. For years, Dreschler publicly denied ever taking drugs, despite widespread evidence that elite athletes in the former East Germany were given steroids as part of a state-sponsored doping system. Dreschler won the world long jump title in 1983 at the age of 18. "Giving drugs detrimental to children's health does nobody any good in the end," she was quoted as saying in the Guardian. "The people who did it will live to regret it. Ultimately all sport will lose its value."
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