BostonHerald.com – By Mark A. Perigard – Boston Herald TV Critic
‘Secrets’ reveals how East Germany’s female Olympians were duped into doping
Secrets Of The Dead: Doping For Gold: B+
After the East German women swept the Olympics in the late ’70s and ’80s, they became the punch line to an international joke for looking like men.
Those jokes were closer to the truth than even those young women could have ever guessed.
In “Doping for Gold” (Wednesday night at 8 on WGBH, Ch. 2), PBS’ “Secrets of the Dead” takes a break from excavating prehistoric civilizations to scrutinize a modern scandal: East Germany’s state-run program that fed male hormones to thousands of young women without their knowledge.