Overview
- The two-time Olympic high jump champion, who turns 70 on Monday, used a Welt am Sonntag interview to say former East German champions still receive too little respect.
- She said public debate boxes DDR athletes into charges of state-run doping and Stasi ties without asking who knowingly doped or harmed others.
- She argued that deliberate, individual doping by West German athletes before the fall of the Berlin Wall has been glossed over.
- Nasse-Meyfarth said reunified Germany weakened its own results by rejecting the DDR’s talent search and support system, which she called the real base of success rather than doping.
- Revisiting a 2015 episode, she said she refused the IAAF Hall of Fame over the Lamine Diack corruption scandal and then received a threatening call from the federation’s general secretary.