GERMANY: ATHLETICS - Ttrial starts of track and field coach Thomas Springstein who is accused of supplying drugs to under age athletes

Record ID: 194674

  • Title: GERMANY: ATHLETICS - Ttrial starts of track and field coach Thomas Springstein who is accused of supplying drugs to under age athletes
  • Date: 10th January 2006
  • Summary: MUNICH, GERMANY (MAY 27, 1998) (REUTERS) WIDE ARRIVAL OF FORMER WORLD CHAMPION SPRINTER KATRIN KRABBE AT COURT CASE CLOSE UP OF CAMERA OPERATOR CLOSE UP OF KRABBE SPEAKING WIDE OF CAMERA CLOSE UP OF KRABBE AND HER DEFENCE LAWYER WHO IS HOLDING A NEWSPAPER WITH THE HEADLINE "KRABBE IS INNOCENT" WIDE OF CAMERAS WIDE OF COURTROOM WITH PAN ONTO KRABBE TAKING HER SEAT
  • Embargoed: 25th January 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA5BUJT6XDD0PUJE7K1F7SLRW3W
  • Story Text: The trial started in Magdeburg on Monday (January 9, 2006)
    in the case against the former track and field coach Thomas
    Springstein who is accused of supplying drugs to minors in
    three cases.
    The trial in the eastern German town revives the former
    East Germany's doping legacy. Track and field athlete
    Anne-Katrin Elbe received tablets from Springstein which
    she handed over to the Track and Field Federation (DLV),
    who in turn filed charges against Springstein.
    Springstein, the coach who trained Olympic 800 metres
    gold medal winner Nils Schumann and shamed double world
    sprint champion Katrin Krabbe, had been under investigation
    since August 2004 after the DLV reported him on suspicion
    of violating medicine laws and possible attempted bodily
    harm. The now 47-year-old was then sacked by his club, SC
    Magdeburg.
    It is not the first time that Springstein and his
    partner, the former european champion 400 metre sprinter
    Grit Breuer, have been embroiled in a drugs related
    controversy. Breuer and her East German compatriot Krabbe,
    both coached by Springstein, were suspended for two years
    for using the banned steroid clenbuterol in 1992. Krabbe
    won the 100 and 200 metre world titles in 1991 while Breuer
    won the 400 metre European title in 1990.
    Springstein said in 1992 he had given Krabbe and two of
    her club mates the drug, which acts as an anabolic
    stimulating the conversion of fat into muscle, but claimed
    he did not know it was a banned substance.
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