Jarmila Kratochvilova turbo boost

Czechoslovakia wins the 1983 European Cup 4x400m women relay thanks to Jarmila Kratochvilova. This uberwoman starts the last part of the relay in 3rd place and easily smokes the ones ahead thanks to her superpowers.
She's the one with white shirt with letter "D"

Results:
1) Czechoslovakia (letter D, white suit) (Moravcikova, Matejkovicova, Kocembova, Kratochvilova): 3.20.80
2) USSR (A, red): 3.21.71
3) DDR (C, blue): 3.22.70

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• athletics
• doping
• czechoslovakia
• czech
• jarmila
• kratochvilova
• 4x400
• cheaters
• steroids
• track
• field
• relay

[smooveXXX]

I just briefly perused the comments here - are people actually contending that Krato wasn't using steroids?!? Ahahahaha. She looked more freaking impressive in that relay than Ovett did in the 1977 World Cup 1500m! Of course she did hard work - so did Marion Jones, Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis, Justin Gatlin etc etc - hell, my best 800m was 1.46.19 and I did hard work - it's just if I used drugs my "hard work" would have been at a level that allowed me to run 1.43.5!!!

[epaluoma]

@kukunaros Well that's exactly the power of steroids: you can train a lot harder. I don't doubt for a second that she didn't work very hard, but she certainly couldn't have maintained that training program without the drugs. As centrum99 already said it before.

[vikingskipdotcom]

She was running the last 400 on about 48.6 s with flying start. Actually far from her pb on the 400. Still, too good to be true?

[aswerdat]

We all know they did steroids, not on purpose probably, doctors or trainers gave it to them in the food or just saying ''that's to keep you healthy during the season'' but you must admitt that even on hard work and steroids I (or all of you) wouldn't have been able to achieve all of that beacuse I have predispotion for other sports such as basketball, volleyball, handball.

[JorgeDan75]

Krato was too he- male!!!

[Roksij]

Drugs. Next...

[vhickerson]

@brendel99 Are you serious. In the we west make those accusations because it takes one to know one. If I cheat then I become an expert and know it when I see it. However just because noone else was as strong as them doesn't mean they didn't use too. In baseball it's been said that the best athletes are those who were best before steroids because everyone has taken them. Face the east used first and then the west caught on and did too. Everyone's wrong.

[dehart5]

Jarmila Kratochvílová was full of steriods and these top performances in the late 70's and on into the 80's were due to steriods.  The athlete may or may not have known what they took but it was all part of the program. As a weigthlifter I can tell you that you can tell by so many indicators that Jarmila took steriods as well as Koch and many others during that time. It is a shame for today's athletes who are actually better runners but the drugs allow for total recover.

[kovaxtromb]

@Mark5058 hmm.. and what if Krato is a hermaphrodite..? :) no artificial testosterone input.. only a naturally high rate of male hormones... it is also possible..

[kovaxtromb]

well... one more important thing.. so far it was written in the comments drugs helped to do that hard work.. (cause of faster regeneration of the muscles) but more importantly steroids result muscle- growth even if there s no training.. it would be a perfect drug without its side effects on the health.. so in my view this rate of steroid using is absolutely inmoral.. unfortunatelly T'n'F is,in fact, tainted.. most of the top sprinters use something.. but the ratethat matters..

[brendel99]

It's quite an enigmatic situation. Why would the Czechs put only one athlete on some super doping programme? Why, as the country doesn't exist any more, and Kratochvilova doesn't make money from her achievements the way Western athletes do, doesn't she just admit to it? It's a shame she and Marita Koch don't speak English, because people in the west will just continue to assume the worst.