One of the better German athletes died of Cancer today. My thoughts are especially with his 10-year-old daughter.
Below is the google Translation from an article by Financial Times Dutschland.
Career with shadow
Stéphane Franke is dead
The career of the former cross country skier Stéphane Franke was so successful and controversial. The European Championship bronze medalist over 10 000 meters from 1994 to 1998, died last Thursday at the age of 47 years. This gave the family said Wednesday.
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Stéphane Franke won the 1998 European Championship bronze in the 10 000 meters. Frank died in a hospital in his hometown of Potsdam on the effects of lymphatic cancer. The funeral has already taken place on Tuesday. "It's a human tragedy," said Clemens Prokop, president of the German Athletics Federation (DLV). Born in Versailles Franke developed in Filderstadt to a world class runner who in 1993 at the World Championships in Stuttgart, a surprise fourth more than 10 000 meters was. His coach was Isabelle Baumann, wife of German Dieter Baumann precursor. The relationship between the Olympic champion in 1992 and later, but Franke was influenced not only rivalry but was in the wake of the doping scandal of Baumann Baumann zerrüttet.Im case - the 1999 Schwabe had tested positive for checks - came on allegations that Franke and have looked after him at the time of the hurdler Damian Kallabis might have tampered with the toothpaste Baumann during a training camp in St. Moritz. The banned doping agents nandrolone was discovered in it. Frank had always dropped the charges zurückgewiesen.Ein large shadow on the performance of the athlete and coach in 1998 in Budapest, where Franke EM-third and a little later his pupil was sensational Kallabis obstacle-Europe champion. For it was known that he has received and Kallabis infusions with the blood thinners HES. The use was not there on the doping-ban list, but suspicion fed to the ingestion of blood doping agent EPO. Neither Frank nor Kallabis ever tested positive. The runner coach defended himself against the accusation of drug abuse, acknowledged the HES application but one and complained about the "witch hunt", which he completed in 2000 exposed fühlte.Ende Franke, 1995, his best time over 5,000 meters (13:03,76 minutes ) and 10 000 meters 27:48,88 () was gone, his career as a player and coach. A target of his position coach when he got DLV nicht.Dafür Franke was appointed in February 2001 for the sports director of athletics meetings in Berlin ISTAF. This professional chapter went to him quickly and ignominiously after a year to an end Frank was accused sent in his capacity as ISTAF director of sport a fake fax from the ISTAF office of the Council members of the athletics world governing body IAAF and so Berlin's World Cup Application for 2005 have brought about the failure. Everything pointed to Frank as the sender. In one court case brought against him for forgery he accepted the letter Strafbefehl.In impending insolvency of the ISTAF GmbH and the lack of support by political and business of the meeting was complaining. The IAAF awarded the World Cup for 2005 in Helsinki, Berlin, later received the award for 2009.In the past few years, Frank worked as a television commentator for athletics and cross country skiing as well as an author. "I'm the focus of such a marathon, my first just over the next 10 to 000 meters, which lie before me," Franke said loudly from a TV channel "Euro Sport" common explanation for his illness. Frank leaves behind a ten-year-old daughter.