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And those players just came down with Jaundice out of nowhere. And let us all remember this much we do know, some of those players came down with Jaundice with very serious consequences from using Hypodermic Needles, it be to inject vitamin C or some sort of amphetamine. Sure, they injected vitamin C, that must be it.

"The report was put together by researchers at Berlin’s Humboldt University on behalf of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, with Giselher Spitzer as the project leader. It was completed in April, but has yet to be published because of privacy concerns and legal issues over naming athletes, doctors and politicians."

Germany's own Olympic Sports Confederation's report says this.

It also states that an unspecified number of footballers in the 1954 World Cup-winning team received injections of the methamphetamine Pervitin, commonly known today as speed, according to the newspaper.

Sounds like the evidence is above.

That was before anti-doping regulations became commonplace.

I don’t think it widespread enough, if it really happened, to effect the outcome.

I should add the MLS is popular, well-attended and profitable.

In the days of Mickey Mantle, so they say a lot of the athletes doped, used amphetamines and baseball of course has carried a stigma. Some of the players came down with Jaundice which you get from hypodermic needles. They were probably using in 1966 too. This is their own Sports Confederation report that says this. But this is history, maybe it doesn't matter anymore.

THAT the West German World Cup winning team of 1954 beat Hungary in the Final enhanced by drugs is something we have known for a long time. Indeed it was pretty plain soon after the Final itself with tales – not least from an enraged Ferenc Puskas – of German players vomiting in their dressing room.

When more than half that team succumbed to jaundice and were out for months it was plainer than ever that their remarkable second half rally against the Hungarians had a chemical basis. Just a few years ago, a dressing room worker revealed that he had found syringes below the floorboards.

Now, a shocking study by Berlin’s Humboldt University gives us chapter and verse in 800 pages not only of this conspiracy but of a government supported programme of enormous cost which began in the 1940s and went on for years. In Berne in that 1954 Final the spurious line was that the German players were being injected with vitamin C. In fact, this study discloses, it was pervitin an amphetamine. This drugging policy was as widespread and ruthless as that of the much discredited East Germans who pumped their pumped up girl swimmers full of drugs and ruined the lives of their massive female shot-putters.

Brian Glanville

It's really no big deal, unfortunately some of America's best athletes especially track from past Olympics have been caught or are highly suspect as well.

If people dock Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez because of steroid use, this is just the same thing.

But at least 1 star doesn't appear to belong. There's a lot more that can be written on all this.

If Germany was doping in 1954, you can be pretty sure a number of other teams were also doping.