Quote Originally Posted by The Bloop View Post
Koch's 400m and Kratichviliva's 800m world records from the early 80's still stand.
Seems ridiculous that theyve been kept on the books, but what they took wasnt detectable at the time.
I had to check the times run by the above athletes and Marita Koch's 47.60 for the 400m is ridiculous. Anyone who breaks 50 seconds nowadays is regarded as world class. It is almost as unbreakable as Flojo's 100m world record and should be expunged from the record books.

Before they were outed as drug cheats, I could never understand how East Germany, with a population of between 16-18 million could dominate athletics and many other sports in the way they did. It was somehow reassuring when their state-sponsored doping regime cam to light.