Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

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06-11-19, 13:26
Taunton Blue Genie

Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50289343
06-11-19, 13:28
Taunton Blue Genie

Re: Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

And I noticed this story in the hard copy of The Times today (only accessible online for those with a subscription). about a GDR female athlete called Ines Geipel, who, from a young age, was subjected to doping (and worse) by her trainers. (It didn't help that her father was a Stasi officer).

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...tasi-bk3wr0xbw
06-11-19, 13:34
Blue Dwr

Re: Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

And I noticed this story in the hard copy of The Times today (only accessible online for those with a subscription). about a GDR female athlete called Ines Geipel, who, from a young age, was subjected to doping (and worse) by her trainers. (It didn't help that her father was a Stasi officer).

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...tasi-bk3wr0xbw

For those that don't have the Times' subscription...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...red-Stasi.html
06-11-19, 13:40
Taunton Blue Genie

Re: Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

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Originally Posted by Blue Dwr

For those that don't have the Times' subscription...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...red-Stasi.html

:thumbup:

(By the way, I don't quite 'get' why the Mail uses such long-winded article titles on the net.)
06-11-19, 14:28
Blue Dwr

Re: Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

:thumbup:

(By the way, I don't quite 'get' why the Mail uses such long-winded article titles on the net.)

Click bait?
06-11-19, 16:18
Taunton Blue Genie

Re: Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

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Originally Posted by Blue Dwr

Click bait?

Surely short but snappy is more consistent with click bait..
06-11-19, 16:32
Blue Dwr

Re: Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

Surely short but snappy is more consistent with click bait..

Not with the DM - the more lurid/titillating the better
06-11-19, 17:19
splott parker

Re: Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

Read about the footballers the other day, very interesting read:thumbup:
06-11-19, 19:55
David Vincent

Re: Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

That picture brought back a few memories. The trouble with the Olympics was that it got sexualised. Those lithesome and willowy blond women high jumpers with their long legs and …Oh, need I go on. It just stimulated degenerates who sat in front of the TV drooling and fantasizing.