FINA Finally Sends Strong Message In Reform Process By Stripping “Disgraced” GDR Dr. Lothar Kipke Of 1980s Honour 20 Years After Criminal Conviction
Kipke's own Stasi (state police) observer reported back to spy HQ that Kipke was "brutal" in his treatment of the young athletes when sticking steroid syringes into the arms and backsides of under-age girls, unearthed GDR state documents revealed in the 1990s
The ruling FINA Bureau, the top table of global swimming governance, has voted unanimously to strip Dr. Lothar Kipke of the honour bestowed on him in the 1980s when he was a member of the Medical Commission abroad but one of the chief operators of the German Democratic Republic's State Plan 14:25 systematic doping program behind the Berlin Wall.
The FINA decision comes 20 years after Kipke was criminally convicted for his involvement in state-prescribed doping in GDR sport, swimmers among those most affected. Kipke was served a suspended sentence and fined for his key role in administering anabolic steroids to underage athletes, most of them teenage girls.
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