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Mother plunges German swimming star into controversy

Tuesday 09 November 1993 00:02 GMT
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Jutta van Almsick, mother of the German swimming star Franziska van Almsick, has admitted passing information to the Staisi while she was an East German sports official in the 1980s.

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