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Ender & An Extraordinary Tale Of Lies, Spies & Family Betrayal In The Doping Days Of The GDR
Kornelia Ender celebrates 200m freestyle gold at the 1974 European Championships, GDR teammate Andrea Eife, to her right, taking bronze. The silver went to Enith Brigitha, the Dutchwoman denied a title at Olympic, World and European events by GDR swimmers - NT/CLArchive
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Ender & An Extraordinary Tale Of Lies, Spies & Family Betrayal In The Doping Days Of The GDR

This weekend marks the first solo World record set by Kornelia Ender, the first of the GDR's "Wundermädchen", on her way to a tally of 29 global standards. Here is her extraordinary tale, one of intrigue, espionage, family betrayal and escape - along with a sense of far-reaching consequences

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Kornelia Ender was the first "Wundermädchen" of an East German medal-winning factory later confirmed to have been fuelled by a state-run drugs programme.

From the archive: Ender's extraordinary story, updated with the painful tale of how her own father scuppered her plans to escape to the West with her children and the decathlete and bobsledder husband who would learn that 17 of his closest friends and associates in spirt had been assigned to spy on him and his swim superstar wife...

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