Football, the Stasi and escape from the DDR

[Taunton Blue Genie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50289343

[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

[Blue Dwr]

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

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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

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

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

[Blue Dwr]

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

Click bait?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Click bait?

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

[Blue Dwr]

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

Not with the DM - the more lurid/titillating the better

[splott parker]

Read about the footballers the other day, very interesting read

[David Vincent]

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.