Sport under communism - Regeneration Games

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4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Advanced CCTV, security cordons and an £80 million pound electric fence: The security impact of the Olympics is already being felt in the London Borough of Newham. Security procedures are some of the most intense and developed in the world, designed to protect not only Olympic visitors but also future residents of the 40,000 new homes due to be completed by the end of the decade. Newham is one of the most impoverished areas in the country and the condition of its current residents stands in sharp contrast to the lives of people flooding into the borough for the Olympics. Laurie Taylor talks to Gary Armstrong about a large scale study of security, policing and the impact of the 'Regeneration Olympics' on the lives of the residents of Newham. Also on the programme, Laurie speaks to Jonathan Grix about 'sport under communism' and why East Germany was, for two decades, one of the most successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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0:43.0	Hello, can you name this tune in, well say five, open up ten? You know it really should sound familiar because after all if you were around in 1988 you could
1:03.9	easily have heard it not once or twice but to be precise on 102 separate occasions that is
1:10.5	on all the occasions when an East German athlete stepped up to receive a medal.
1:20.0	Christine Otto with her six gold medals was just one, just one of the hugely successful East German
1:25.0	team which secured the Communist States second place in the medal table for that Olympics in
1:30.3	soul, a result which put them ahead of the United States, a country with ten times the number
1:34.9	of citizens. And that was not a one-off success. For two decades, East Germany, the GDR was one of the three
1:41.9	most successful nations in the world in both the
1:44.4	summer and the Winter Olympics.
1:46.9	But a new book which is based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources provides a
1:51.4	detailed account and explanation for the
1:53.7	GDR's dramatic rise to such sporting supremacy. It's called Sport Under
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