COLORADO SPRINGS — Heidi Krieger did not ask questions when her coaches added a regimen of blue pills to the handful of vitamins she was already taking every day.

Krieger did not object that her daily workouts were nothing more than extended weight-lifting sessions with no true practice in the techniques of shot put. She liked winning and enjoyed the travel, the attention and all the other perks that came with the success — so even though she shot up from 152 pounds to 230 over two years, she did what her coaches asked and stuck with the program.

Once part of the steroid-addled East German sports powerhouse of the 1980s, Heidi Krieger is now Andreas Krieger — and his is an eye-opening reminder of the consequences of state-sponsored doping in sports.

“In some ways, they played God without including me or asking me,” Krieger said in an interview he recently taped with the German Anti-Doping Agency, for which he is a spokesman.