The narrative of a virtuous West Germany emerging victorious from sport's Cold War was dented when T-Mobile and Keul's Freiburg colleagues were caught up in the Tour de France doping scandal in ...

Now, British Intelligence officers who operated behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War have urged Grant Shapps, the current Defence Secretary, to ensure they are awarded medals that speak to ...

Britain’s “forgotten Cold War warriors” have called for recognition of their part in undertaking life-and-death missions in hostile environments following the Second World War.. Their plea comes after ...

October 21 , 2023: The war in Ukraine caused Germany, and most Germans, to revise their defense policies. This is nothing new, the revisions began in 2016 when Germany announced that 25 years of ...

East v West - Germany's drug-fuelled Cold War for medals "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them. It's really nothing special." That was what German heptathlete Birgit Dressel, who ...

At the end of the Cold War, East Germany's systematic doping secrets spilled out. The truth on the other side of the Berlin Wall has taken longer to emerge.