`Name names' over West German doping

Germany's athletics federation chief has called for the complete publication of a study into doping in West Germany from 1950 to the present.

Germany's athletics federation chief has called for names of those involved in doping in sport in former West Germany to be published.

"We have to name names," DLV president Clemens Prokop told reporters in Munich.

Prokop called for the complete publication of the study into doping in West Germany from 1950 to the present.

A shorter version of the 800-page study, a report and summary were published Monday.

Prokop said that revealing the names of those suspected of involvement in doping would remove a "general suspicion".

Prokop said he was surprised that doping reached beyond athletics into other sports including football.

"What shocked me was that research was obviously carried out with state finance and that obviously many leading officials in sport knew about it," he said.

Germany's Olympic chief Thomas Bach said an independent commission of the Olympic association DOSB would analyse the study and make recommendations to the association.

Lars Mortsiefer, the head of Germany's anti-doping agency NADA, said he would also like to know the names of doctors or coaches involved.

The study, which says athletes in West Germany were doped with government funding, was carried out at Berlin's Humboldt University and the Westfaelische Wilhelms University in Muenster.

Although the final report had been ready since April, publication had been delayed over data privacy laws.

The study claims that systematic doping and anabolics research funded by the state took place in the 1970s and 1980s.

While a state-run and sponsored doping program was uncovered in East Germany after reunification in 1990, the study is the first to deal with doping practices in West Germany.

Several former East German athletes said they were not surprised to hear of doping in West German sport.


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