Krabbe, Two Others Are Reinstated
The German Athletics Federation on Sunday lifted its four-year suspension of sprinters Katrin Krabbe, Girt Breuer and Silke Moeller in a drug-testing dispute.
“A great weight has been taken off us,” Krabbe said in Darmstadt, Germany. “We are innocent.”
Some international sports officials said the ruling will make it harder to catch doping violators.
“This decision left a bitter aftertaste,” said Walther Troeger, the No. 2 official in the German Olympic Committee.
Although she still is banned internationally, the 22-year-old Krabbe, reigning world champion at 100 meters and 200 meters, replied “of course” when asked if she would compete at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
The International Amateur Athletics Federation will meet at the end of the month and probably will discuss the Krabbe case, said Arne Ljungqvist, a Swedish vice president of track’s governing body. Ljungqvist made it clear the IAAF is not bound by the German action and may keep Krabbe out of the Olympics and other international meets.
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