100 metres World Champion banned

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Originally Posted by Majorblue

I also had a thing for Heike Drechsler but as an East German athlete in that era you have to be suspicious.
Didn’t the Russian who pipped the also attractive Sharon Davies to the gold eventually decide to transition into a male as a result of the supplements taken under that regime or is my imagination running wild?

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Petra Schneider was the name of the swimmer I think you're referring to. She represented East Germany and admitted that she did take performance enhancing drugs throughout her career. However, I can find no mention of her transitioning. Maybe a little bit of a fantasy going on there Major ? 😊

Quite possibly.:hehe:

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Originally Posted by Moodybluebird

Heike Dreschler always had something about her, if you ignored her rather long neck. Of a similar build (and attractiveness)
is Dafne Shippers, the Dutch sprinter. She's very pretty with a hint of masculinity unfortunately, probably due to her weight training. Still very nice though.

Marita Koch did look like a bloke but if you want the full masculine look, you need to look no further than Jarmila Kratichvilov. What a guy !

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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.

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Originally Posted by The Bloop

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Moodybluebird

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.

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The Whole East german thing was just pushing the cheating to the extreme, i saw a program once where young athletes were taken to " factories " and juices, pushed and trained way beyond what a human body could cope with, juices again and then it was repeated

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Originally Posted by lardy

Well that's probably why. If you've got to be in the top 0.5% of a sport to make decent money as opposed to the top 10%, you've got much more incentive to dope to be the very best.

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I see it differently, if you've got a billion dollar industry you'll do everything to protect it.

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Originally Posted by OurManFlint II

I see it differently, if you've got a billion dollar industry you'll do everything to protect it.

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I thought you were talking about individuals in sports with less money?