(CNN)Marie Katrin Kanitz was just 16 years old when, unbeknown to her, she first started doping. The innocuous-looking blue pill she was first handed by a coach as an impressionable teenager turned out to be the anabolic steroid Oral-Turinabol -- a fact she only became aware of when German authorities notified her via a letter in 1997. At the time, Kanitz was told the pills were vitamins that would help her become a world-class figure skater and, afraid to question an authoritarian coach, she took them for the next seven or eight years. Today, like many of her fellow former East German athletes, she is the human face of a state-sponsored doping program, memories of which have been stirred...
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