Doping Victims Aid
The Doping Victims Aid e. V. was founded in March 1999 to support doping victims in competitive sports , in particular the GDR sports system with forced doping . Michael Lehner is chairman .
The goals of the association are:
- the support of former competitive athletes, mainly from the GDR, who have suffered mental and physical damage from the state-prescribed and forced intake of doping substances,
- establishing contacts with former and active top athletes and their children,
- Prevention work, lectures in schools and sports clubs on the dangers and long-term damage of performance-enhancing agents and nutritional supplements, carried out by former athletes and experts.
The Doping Victims Aid has been awarding the Heidi Warrior Medal since 2000 to people who have made outstanding contributions to the fight against doping in sport.
By April 2015, the association had 194 officially recognized victims of GDR doping.
The association is a member of the Union of Victims' Associations of Communist Tyranny .
From the founding of the association in 1999 to 2013, the Weinheim doctor Klaus Zöllig was chairman, and the former sprinter Ines Geipel was chairman until December 2018 .
Web links
- Doping Victims Aid
- Forced doping in the GDR, victims demand 32 million euros for acute funds , Deutschlandfunk , April 2, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The list of deaths is now very long" , Deutschlandfunk , April 5, 2015
- ↑ UOKG ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christian Fuchs: Ines Geipel takes over the chairmanship of the Dopingopfer-Hilfe , www.leichtathletik.de March 3, 2013
