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EP 58: Dörte Thümmler: Olympian and World Champion — My Survival My Voice
Dörte Thümmler won a world title at 15. She learned what had been done to her body years later.
On Dance Dad with John Corella, host John Corella, co-creator and executive producer of Dance Moms, sits down with Dörte, a 1987 world champion on uneven bars and 1988 Olympic medalist from East Germany. John brings his own history as a competitive dancer to the questions. This Dörte Thümmler gymnast interview gives a firsthand account of the East German gymnastics doping scandal, told with a translator beside her.
Dörte started in a sports kindergarten at age three and later trained at SC Dynamo…
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