1987 World Championships 4x400m relay Women

[theodwrostv]

those were the days........ steroids or not ,there was close and hard competition.....

[TheCopper05]

The question most track and field fans were asking was what happened to the GDR women the following year at the Olympics in 1988. The GDR women swimmers were dominant in Seoul, but their track and field stars were not.

[222mozart]

wonderful girls from GDR

[Ineddiblehulk]

I miss these strong European teams, I know they were drugged up, but it added more colour USSR, GDR, USA, great stuff. At least the jamaicans are keeping things interesting in their battle with the US.

[markguest36]

missed marita koch!

[paulouk83]

valerie brisco makes awful changes 1987 and 1988 both terrible!!

[skinnytinny]

The East Germans have got nice legs - just saying.

[rc2869]

Great sport at the time - number of clean athletes collecting medals = 0 I reckon

[RFSA88]

Black people have no business taking anything. Are our muscles not naturally strong enough? Our limbs not long enough? Our propensity to have way more fast twitch fibres within our muscles not enough? Christ we survived slavery becase the strongest survived! Take your chances if you must however when you caught don't insult anyone's intelligence by tring to get out of it with weak ass lies. Just for once I'd like to see someone say 'ok you got me' but here are my reasons. Then GO QUIETLY!

[htownhomie06]

lol

[rmrooster01]

what was really sad was the USA boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.... And because of that the Soviets, East Germans, and Cubans boycotted the 1984 Summer games. You can thank former US president Jimmy Carter for that. Jimmy Carter the USELESS ONE!

[bzach71]

Not relly..marion jones started using in late 90s and NEVER got caught..she confess. I wonder how many others are in the same situation. I think its a level playing field..always been.

[amupala]

Maybe so, Ilona Slupianek was the only East German who got caught in competitions. But In case of Americans, there are some exceptions; Pam Marshall, Diane Williams, Antonio Pettigrew didn't get caught and they had confessed use of doping. Also the BALCO-case happened quite accidentally, I think.

[RFSA88]

Really, Pam Marshall?

[shottut]

@RFSA88 Yes Pam Marshall, she use to trade info with other athletes on drugs eg. the Charlie Francis athletes and the Bob Keerse athletes (who was Pam's coach).

[paulouk83]

@shottut Pam Marshall was a cheat agreed!

[shottut]

@amupala There were cover for by the USTA !

[Ras09true]

Notice before this era americans were a shadow and eastern europeans dominated,now eastern europeans are almost extinct,except for Russians in the 400 and field events.and I have to say most of them looked like male.

[mitchell4000]

what russians in the 400? lol now, they had some serious drugs.

[Ras09true]

The ones that finished at the back were the clean ones.they actually won.mericans started developing riods around this period and caught up to them

[bzach71]

being slow doesnt make them clean.

[icqrulez]

GDR owns all...lol

[hankm77]

anyone have the 4x400 womens from 1984 olympics?

[yellowbird39tc]

It was on youtube and it was taken off!

[hankm77]

ok, thanks. I knew I had seen it here before. there were some great women on the US team. Cheeseborough, Brisko hooks. would be great to see it again

[tariqziyad]

all those europeans were on steroids

[amupala]

And, of course, americans are never on steroids, you think so tariqziyad?

[jastathack]

Prishkina was great!

[sequiaonda78]

She is Bryzgina.... not Prishkina.

[quishia]

Thank you!!! I've been looking for this video.

[jhecht424]

The same GDR squad in this video (Neubauer, Emmellman, Muller, and Busch), is the one that just one year later at the Olympics in Seoul would be totally overhauled by the USSR and USA.

[bzach71]

yup..they clock almost similar time with the one here but could only manage bronze. US and USSR did 3:15 - superfast..!!

[Mark5058]

Just about the same winning time as in Beijing, but a completely different era

[AB5309]

doesnt matter if you bring drugs into it, the east germans could have brought anybody into this team and probably still would have won.

[Shrubb1879]

Exactly. They were all on something - state policy.

[bzach71]

well.actually not really..if u look at their relay team, its almost the same prson year after year (except those who retired of course). In 1988, Dreschler is the fastest 100m runner for them but still not included in the relay - they stick to their usual team - gladisch, behrendt, auerswald, gohr.