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Paoli
[ pou-lee; Italian pah-aw-lee ]
noun
- Pasquale di, 1725–1807, Corsican military leader, statesman, and patriot.
Example Sentences
"From the 1970s onwards, East Germany began winning a lot of medals. West German politicians started worrying about it and spreading the message that West German athletes needed to win medals too," says Letizia Paoli, who chaired the 2009 committee investigating West German doping activity at the University of Freiburg.
The first commission was quickly dissolved due to health reasons, while Paoli, an Italian criminologist, was asked to chair the second and head a six-strong team of investigators.
"Unlike in East Germany, where it was a top-down doping system, in the West, much of it was outsourced to Freiburg," says Paoli.
"The athletes loved Klumper. He was excellent with his diagnostics and would go to the track and field to spend a lot of time with them, while Keul was more hands-off," says Paoli.
"These were mixtures of off-label medicines, prescription medicines, doping products and natural remedies that were supposedly tailored to individual athletes' needs," says Paoli.
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