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| | BJ- Sports, Recreation - 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Compiled by Volker Kluge, former sports page editor of Junge Welt, the most popular East German daily newspaper, who was an apparatchik of the East German sports machine and therefore lacks critical distance to his subject, this encyclopedia covers 1,000 East German athletes, including all 755 who won Olympic medals. |
 | | The rest were either world or European champions, or were simply "very popular." The biography gives the name (and, if relevant, the maiden name) of each athlete, his or her athletic discipline, place and date of birth, team or club, and the name of the athlete's coach. |
 | | Player biographies (some with stamp-sized portraits) are limited to the clubs and dates of a player's career, and fans will be disappointed with the brevity of the information. |
| www.rre.casalini.com /2001/bj.html (524 words) |
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