Ice-skating: Skater battles over spy file

Figure skating star Katarina Witt stepped up her resistance to the release of her East German secret police file today, as the government agency that controls the files confirmed she was ‘‘significantly supported’’ by the Stasi.

‘‘It’s not about fear,’’ Witt told the mass-circulation Bild daily. ‘‘The point is that I don’t want to see my life spied on and laid open a second time.’’