https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A nurse, one of the co-defendants in the trial of a German sports doctor accused of masterminding an international blood-doping network, described on Friday how she helped athletes dope with illicit blood transfusions. https://www.thelocal.de/20200919/nurse-weeps-as-tells-german-court-of-her-blood-doping-role Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:19:17 +0200 nurse-weeps-as-tells-german-court-of-her-blood-doping-role A further person has been arrested in connection with a blood doping network based in the German city of Erfurt, the state prosecutor in Munich confirmed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20190320/new-arrest-in-erfurt-doping-scandal Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:56:36 +0100 new-arrest-in-erfurt-doping-scandal Prominent German sports figures blasted the "cowardly" IOC on Friday over its decision to allow 271 Russian athletes to participate in the Rio Games despite a rampant state-run doping programme. https://www.thelocal.de/20160806/german-officials-blast-ioc-over-russia-verdict Sat, 06 Aug 2016 18:42:32 +0200 german-officials-blast-ioc-over-russia-verdict Olympic discus champion Robert Harting on Tuesday launched a venomous verbal attack on compatriot Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, for the IOC's stance on state-run Russian doping. https://www.thelocal.de/20160727/german-olympic-ioc-olympics-rio Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:44:40 +0200 german-olympic-ioc-olympics-rio Russia hasn't stopped its state-sponsored sports doping despite an international ban against its track and field athletes, German public television ARD reported Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160608/german-tv-says-russian-athletics-doping-still-ongoing Wed, 08 Jun 2016 20:04:16 +0200 german-tv-says-russian-athletics-doping-still-ongoing A German documentary has presented evidence to back-up serious allegations of state-sponsored doping in Russian athletics. https://www.thelocal.de/20141204/german-doc-alleges-state-doping-in-russia Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:59:00 +0100 german-doc-alleges-state-doping-in-russia Athletes caught doping could face up to three years in jail if a draft anti-doping law to be introduced on Wednesday is passed. https://www.thelocal.de/20141111/draft-law-to-punish-doping-athletes-with-up-to-three-years-in-jail Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:07:00 +0100 draft-law-to-punish-doping-athletes-with-up-to-three-years-in-jail The German Football Association (DFB) plans to strengthen the fight against doping from next season by doubling the amount of blood tests on players. https://www.thelocal.de/20140522/football-chiefs-to-double-doping-tests-on-players Thu, 22 May 2014 19:03:00 +0200 football-chiefs-to-double-doping-tests-on-players The president of the German Olympic Committee has attempted to quash a scandal around government-backed doping in former West Germany. He insisted on Tuesday that a recent study had not exposed another drug scandal in sport. https://www.thelocal.de/20130813/51375 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:55:00 +0200 51375 Bundesliga players will undergo blood tests for the first time this season, it was announced late on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20130808/51289 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:17:00 +0200 51289 Politicians expressed concern Sunday and called for light to be shed on a report that West Germany conducted systematic doping in sports in the 1970s backed by the government. https://www.thelocal.de/20130804/51211 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:52:00 +0200 51211 Former German sprinter Erik Zabel admitted to having used doping products including EPO from 1996 to 2004, in an interview published on the Süddeutsche Zeitung's website. https://www.thelocal.de/20130730/51111 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:15:00 +0200 51111 Jan Ullrich, Germany's only winner of the Tour de France, has for the first time admitted to doping with the help of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes who ran a large-scale doping network. https://www.thelocal.de/20130622/50455 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:11:00 +0200 50455 The Olympic Council of Germany and the German Cycling Federation have welcomed professional cyclist Stefan Schumacher’s admission to doping and have called upon him to go into more detail about the practice. https://www.thelocal.de/20130329/48833 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:42:00 +0100 48833 Germany’s most famous cyclist Jan Ullrich was found guilty of doping and stripped of his third place in the 2005 Tour de France by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20120209/40639 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:24:00 +0100 40639 A doctor considered well connected to several German Olympians is being investigated on suspicion of performing blood doping transfusions for nearly 30 elite athletes. https://www.thelocal.de/20120131/40451 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:08:00 +0100 40451 The vice president of the International Skating Union (ISU) has denied telling German speed skater Claudia Pechstein that he was sorry for her two-year suspension from competition that forced her to miss the 2010 Winter Olympics. https://www.thelocal.de/20120107/39979 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:36:00 +0100 39979 The Women's World Cup in Germany was hit by a doping scandal on Thursday after North Korea defenders Song Jong-Sun and Jong Pok-Sim both tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid, football officials announced. https://www.thelocal.de/20110707/36145 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:36:00 +0200 36145 German speed skater Claudia Pechstein has said she is determined to compete in the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi, although technically she remains banned after serving a two-year suspension for doping. https://www.thelocal.de/20110208/32965 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:25:00 +0100 32965 Teenage athletes were subjected to doping under communist East Germany's vast programme of steroid abuse, a leading former sports official has admitted in his new book. https://www.thelocal.de/20100914/29815 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0200 29815