Diagnostic- and training center to different degrees, to be treated or advised, such as German sports stars Maria Riesch and Sebastian Vettel, who however dispute and deny having ever had any contact with Pansold who is the leader of the operation. A possible collaboration between American Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn and Pansold is also a reoccurring theme in German media. Pansold's role at the Red Bull facility was not reported in the United States until 2013, when Pansold confirmed in an interview with the New York Daily News that Vonn had visited him in Thalgau, though Vonn's publicist said they exchanged "nothing more than a courtesy hello." Bibliography , Doping in der DDR. Ein historischer Überblick zu einer konspirativen Praxis. Genese – Verantwortung – Gefahren., Sport und Buch Strauß, Cologne 2002, Klaus Blume, Die Dopingrepublik: Eine (deutsch-)deutsche Sportgeschichte, Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin, 2012, References 1942 births Living people People from Zwickau German sports physicians East German physicians 20th-century German physicians People of the Stasi Doping cases in sport German expatriates in Austria SC Dynamo Berlin Red Bull people 21st-century German physicians