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The federation manipulated Alexandra Marinescu’s age on paper; the gym’s training regimen carved lasting injuries into her spine. Together, they shaped a career that ended far too soon.
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Gina Gogean’s birth certificate said 1978. The passport said 1977. And no one could explain where the truth went.
In April 2002, Romanian sports fans woke each morning wondering what ProSport would publish next. For the first set of articles, the sports daily had sent reporters to a small commune in the Eastern...
Two stories dominate the history of doping in gymnastics. The first is a story of incompatibility: the widespread belief that perfor...
When the German Democratic Republic collapsed in 1990, thousands of coaches, doctors, trainers, and officials from its elite sports system entered a unified Germany that was still trying to understand what, exactly, the GDR had been. Their reputations now depended on how their pasts were interpreted—by newspapers, by athletic federations, by former teamma...
In December 1991, a Swiss magazine profiled a new coach at a gleaming gymnastics center in Liestal. Dieter Hofmann, they wrote, was a “coaching legend”—his East German athletes had won 52 Olympic, World, and European Championship medals. Now he was in Switzerland, “baking smaller rolls,” teaching part-time at a vocational school. The profile mentioned, br...
