From the eigth and last tape of the 1996 collection comes this 50 minute production that was originally issued in 1979. "Before the reunification of the two Germanies in October of 1990, East Germany was called a "sports miracle." A country of just 17 million people, they won only seven medals in the 1956 Summer Olympics, but soon they captured 90 in 1976, and then 126 in 1980. They were the East Germans, athletes like Kornelia Ender, Roland Matthes, Waldemar Cierpinski and many more who benefited from a system of coaching and training unlike any other."
