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A high-ranking East German sports official, speaking as the 1989 European Swimming Championships began at Bonn, West Germany, angrily denied that swimmers from his country take steroids.

The championships in Bonn are the first major international swim competition since a series of West German news reports in June about alleged drug use among East German athletes, including swimmers.

“This discussion about doping makes me sick,” said Egon Mueller, general secretary of East Germany’s Competitive Swimming Assn. “There are no drugs in East German sports.”

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