Cathrin Gilbert, Maik Großekathöfer, Jörg Kramer, Gerhard Pfeil, Michael Wulzinger
Cathrin Gilbert, Maik Großekathöfer, Jörg Kramer, Gerhard Pfeil and Michael Wulzinger write for the sports pages of Spiegel. Udo Ludwig, an expert in doping, who is widely regarded as one of Germany's best investigative journalists, works for the weekly's German news pages. Jens Weinreich is a former sports editor of Berliner Zeitung. He has worked as a freelance journalist since 2008.
In the wake of re-unification, Germany inherited a stable of East German champions, who had not only broken records in track and field but also in the consumption of steroids. Twenty years later, German sport is only now beginning to recover.