Andreas Krieger

He was systematically and unknowingly doped with anabolic steroids for years by East German officials,[2] which caused body chemistry issues.

[3] Krieger had "felt out of place and longed in some vague way to be a boy", and said in a 2004 interview in The New York Times that he was "glad that he became a man".

Krieger was forced to retire in part due to experiencing severe pain from lifting massive amounts of weight while on steroids.

[citation needed] Krieger's story was mentioned in the first episode of the BBC documentary The Lost World of Communism.

[9] Krieger's half-sister through his father's second marriage, Susann Krieger, won the Deutsche Radiopreis 2017 (German Radio Prize) for her feature Gedoptes Gold – Wie aus Heidi Andreas wurde ("Doped Gold – how Heidi became Andreas"), about her brother's life and her reunion with him.