by Worriedmom
The year is 1976, and the place is the Montreal Olympics. And it’s clear that something is wrong.
The East German women’s swim team is unstoppable. Inhuman, almost. Smashing every record, every competitor, sweeping every race – then jumping out of the pool like it wasn’t even challenging. Race after race, the American women – before this, favored to medal, if not win, most swimming events – are outclassed, demoralized, destroyed.
What could possibly be happening? Who are these women? Where did they come from and how are they dominating this Olympics so thoroughly? Today, of course, we know that the East German and other former USSR-bloc women athletes were part of massive, intensive, state-sponsored doping programs, that “processed” thousands of female athletes, pumping them full of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, and other performance enhancing drugs to turn them into athletic machines.
After the fall of the…
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April 15, 2018 at 4:45 pm
Bob Browning
Women administrators should have a majority voice in women’s sport competitions.
The sensational media and its mob mentality in 1976 was tragic.
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