Action air enema
The action air enema was an attempt to improve the performance of West German swimming athletes and modern pentathletes in the 1970s.
Based on the idea that air in the digestive tract or in the intestinal tract causes a higher water position and thus, according to fluid dynamics, a more favorable water position, swimmers were pumped air into the large intestine through the anus .
The German Swimming Association DSV started experiments in this regard, especially in the training camp in Calgary for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . The DSV was confirmed by the doping fighter Manfred Donike that this approach does not contravene any doping guidelines, by the Freiburg sports doctor Joseph Keul , that the health of the athletes will not be endangered, and finally that there will be an increase in performance. The Federal Ministry of the Interior made 250,000 DM available for the experiments. In the training camp in Calgary, the correctness of the considerations to improve performance proved. One of the test subjects was the later President of the National Olympic Committee (NOK) Klaus Steinbach .
However, the inflation method was not suitable for competitions, as there were no suitable rooms available at the competition venues. The “hot air” had escaped from the eventual location of the measure to the starting block . The offer of a rubber goods manufacturer to deliver a kind of plug was rejected by the DSV.
Web links
- "Fresh air in the buttocks" , sueddeutsche.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ ... and then morality? Die Zeit online from April 28, 1989, accessed September 16, 2015
- ↑ http://m.zdf.de/sport/0/0,6733,8354592,00.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
