ABSTRACT
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, several East German athletes disclosed secrets of their training methods. Several told how they were given frequent doses of pills and injections of unknown substances. Ender revealed she started receiving injections at the age of 13. She was 17 at the time of the 1976 games. How should we look back on Ender? An essentially good, if naïve athlete who was exploited by a ruthless system? Or an overachiever who would stop at nothing in her efforts to rewrite the record books?
