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NEWS INVESTIGATES RED BULL

RED FLAG: Lindsey Vonn, Red Bull and the German drug doctor

America’s marquee Olympic star, Lindsey Vonn, has visted the clinic of the East German doping doctor who played an instrumental role in the German Democratic Republic’s notorious, state-sponsored program to dope unwitting young athletes with hardcore anabolic steroids. Thousands of young athletes were victimized, many suffering ghastly, permanent injuries in what have been described as crimes against humanity.

Red Bull pushes limits in sports and in lab

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Red Bull plays a unique and expanding role in sports — fielding soccer and motorsports teams, staging made-for-TV events and sponsoring hundreds of athletes in niche pursuits such as cliff-diving and windsurfing. The company is especially active within adrenaline-driven pursuits that have a viral thrill.

Muscling up to 'roid doc: News visits controversial training doctor at Red Bull clinic

Lindsey Vonn.

Convicted in 1998 of doping East German teenage girls without their knowledge, Bernd Pansold now guides training programs for Red Bull’s sponsored athletes. His comment about the LDS prohibition on caffeine — a key ingredient of Red Bull’s energy drinks — comes about two thirds of the way through our four-hour interview in Austria in March.

Red Bull doc leaves decades of damage behind

Former champion shot putter Andreas Krieger, who competed as a woman (Heidi Krieger) for East Germany, poses with pictures of himself from 1986-87. Photo by John MaDougall/AFP/Getty Images

This is the fourth in a series of four articles drawn from a Daily News investigation of Red Bull’s Diagnostics and Training Center, a facility near the company headquarters in Austria where sponsored athletes and their trainers work under the supervision of Bernd Pansold, convicted of doping crimes in Germany in 1998.

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