Really? The East German track program, along with all DDR sports programs, was utterly riddled with doping. I stopped believing the article the moment he claimed there was no dope there. I am not certain Jens Voigt doped, although I certainly have my suspicions, but I know better than to believe the apparently sincere personal stories of top athletes on their own. We've heard them all before and we will hear them countless times again.
Maybe you're right, I'm not usually naive!
I just have a gut feeling that when someone denies it categorically, in a certain way, it rings true. It was much the same with Wiggins and the opprobrium he would face if he was ever found to have doped. That part of the article rang true in Voigt's article too. His blog would have been totally unnecessary if he was a secret doper and he could just have issued the usual denial. The detail convinced me otherwise it's verging on the psychopathic to invent all that.
He was also under 18 and it's possible that towards the end of the East German state it was winding down the programme or not doing it to kids, although I have no evidence to support that. If he had doped naively as a teen under their programme, I'd cut him slack anyway.
He may get fingered at some point and make a mug of me though, I confess.
Incidentally, has anyone ever voiced suspicions apart from the internet scandalmongers?
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