Antje Harvey Interview - a podcast by Ian Harvey

This is one of the most amazing and inspirational stories that I have ever heard. Antje Harvey grew up in former East Germany. As a 17 year old she finished 11th in the senior World Championships in Seefeld, Austria and won bronze in the relay after a very strong leg for the East German team. After the season, her coaches and their bosses cornered her and confronted her about her unwillingness to take performance enhancing drugs. She told them that she would not. They kicked her off the team and blackballed her from sport even going to the point of physically stopping her from winning a World Loppet race in the Czech Republic. So she retired from sport and went to school. Around when the wall fell she decided to go for it in Biathlon (different people in charge) and amazingly eventually won 1 individual gold and 3 silvers in the 1992 and 1994 Olympic games. Since then she moved to the United States and became a US citizen in 2000. I am very grateful to be able to call this amazing woman my wife.

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