Berlin, Thursday
KATRIN Krabbe's trainer is being investigated for causing bodily harm
and breaking pharmacy laws after the world sprint champion tested
positive for a banned stimulant, prosecutors said today.
Tuesday's disclosure that the world sprint champion and her team-mate
Grit Breuer took a steroid-related drug was the latest twist in a
long-running drug saga involving the two women.
It also came amid a rash of scandals at the Olympic Games involving
the drug Clenbuterol.
Bernd Sehmisch, chief public prosecutor in Krabbe's east German home
city of Neubrandenburg, told Reuters an inquiry had been launched
against Thomas Springstein after unidentified citizens had filed a
criminal complaint accusing the trainer of advising the sprinters to
take Clenbuterol as a contraceptive.
''If these accusations are proven, this could be considered bodily
harm,'' Sehmisch said.
Springstein said today he had obtained Clenbuterol without the
required prescription.
''This is my mistake that I didn't make myself aware (of the drug
rules) and didn't check with the right authorities. I feel guilty in
that I did not find out more about it,'' he told a news
conference.--Reuter.
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