September 1998 Magazine Articles Backwash Backwash features short clips, gossip, letters and opinions.
Contributions are welcome.
Now for the rumours behind the news. According to new Stasi file material, West German pharmaceutical companies had their part to play in the doping kitchens of the former East Germany. Documents show that drugs from the West German company Homburg found their way into the East German sport system for testing, thereby saving the company valuable time and research funds. Thioctazid, which has never been on the banned drug list, activated oxygen exchange thereby reducing lactate in the muscles at a faster rate. Contact between West German companies and GDR Sport bureaucrats is assumed to have been established at the reputed Leipzig Economic Fair.