As East German sports minister and head of that country's Olympic committee, Manfred Ewald, who has died of pneumonia aged 76, created the world's most efficient national sports machine, turning a ...

BERLIN, Germany, October 22. MANFRED Ewald, who guided East German athletics to Olympic glory but was later convicted in a German court for presiding over the Communist country's doping programs, has ...

Major news organizations, including The Times, offered an expanded obituary on Manfred Ewald, the former East German minister of sport who died last month. Even though the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and ...

Two years ago, a former East German discus-thrower named Brigitte Michel stood outside a small East Berlin courtroom and urged the world to take notice of the grisly legacy of the East German sports ...

The former head of East German sport, Manfred Ewald, 74, was given a 22-month suspended prison sentence Tuesday for the systematic doping of the country's young athletes. In the same trial, his ...

May 9, BERLIN. A judge ordered a new medical examination Tuesday for the former head of the East German Olympic program, on trial for doping female athletes without their knowledge, after the man's ...