Doping in cycling and football – The trail leads to Stuttgart and Freiburg – Süddeutsche.de

• The Freiburg Evaluation Commission finds significant evidence for the use of anabolic steroids.
• to be affected not only the cycling, but also two soccer first division.

Evaluation Commission finds new evidence

The German sports doping scandal threatens an unprecedented scale – and for the first time, professional football is concerned. The Evaluation Commission Freiburger sports medicine that deals with the doping past at the local university, has found evidence of extensive doping in cycling and for the administration of anabolic steroids at the Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart and SC Freiburg.

These go from a good 60 “Klümper files” out dealing with the completed fraud case against the former head of the Sporttraumatologischen Outpatient Clinic Armin Klümper. “For the first time,” who was “safe finding possible that Anabolikadoping also in professional football played a significant role,” wrote Andreas Singler, a member of the Evaluation Commission, after SID information the details without consulting his colleagues and has released against the wishes of the Commission Chairman Letizia Paoli

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VfB Stuttgart and SC Freiburg will be affected

In the “late 1970s and early 1980 “was the Bundesliga from Stuttgart” been made even if only occasionally detectable “and the then second division of Freiburg Anabolikadoping on a larger scale” and “. The key figure is Klümper, it is all about the anabolic Megagrisevit, which was also taken from the treated of Klümper and died in 1987 athlete Birgit Dressel times.

The findings cast a dark shadow on both teams, for had played during the said period and the current national coach Joachim Loew. The Commission considered in its interim report expressly stated that “an association of medications to individuals, specifically to be named player after analysis of the records of the Prosecutor Freiburg is not possible.” The SC Freiburg was playing in the second division, VfB Stuttgart was with players such as Bernd and Karlheinz Förster, Hansi Müller, Karl Allgöwer or Rainer Adrion on the high-flying and in 1984 German champions. Löw was at that time at both clubs as players active: 1978-1980 and 1982-1984 in Freiburg, 1980/81 in Stuttgart

“I think it’s completely impossible”

“The. is absurd, “the former VfB coach Hans-Jürgen Sundermann said (1976-1979 and 1980-1982), to the knowledge:” I can not imagine and think it’s completely impossible “. “Can be shown for the first time, the structures of doping in football the example of the main responsible participation of Prof. Dr. Klümper including the funding of such activities by the clubs.” Singler said Commissioner “If it was pointed at your fingertips, as we have said, ‘Man, Professor, I have ran again on Saturday.’ Since it also has something unreasonable made, “Karl Heinz Förster had recently said in a BWR documentation.

The VfB Stuttgart wrote in a press release that he was not satisfied that opinion. “For this reason it can not be reconstructed according to the current state of knowledge on the part of VfB Stuttgart, after which the allegations are based, or whether, and if so in what form they are correct,” it said. Should be noted that “Prof. Klümper was at no time club doctor VfB Stuttgart”. The club said that he was “in the sense of a clean sport at the gapless clarifying uncertainties interested.”

In the German Cycling Federation (BDR) was “Doping especially with anabolic steroids in the years between 1975 and 1980 is not only almost-coverage style at the instigation Klümpers place “, the Commission wrote:” This doping was, may as here, for the first time proved also by the BDR from its own ‘Medical Plan’ financed It is not currently possible that minors doping agent. could have received. ” The new findings on doping in BDR and in professional football were summarized in an approximately 60-page special report. The evaluation committee will discuss in the next few weeks about whether they want to publish this text as an interim report if necessary before completion of all work.