1978 European 100m Women
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Doped women. Haglund gave later positive test
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In England,Which was famous,Avelyn Ashford &Marlies Gohr?
In Japan,Ashford is famous than
Gohr,perhaps.
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Yes, 1987 is not a good year..i think she started to decline in 1987. She only manage semi final in rome world champ - finishing 7th with 11.3 in the semi. She somehow manage to bring up her performance in 1988 clocking 10.89 in GDR champ before olympics but that didnt materialise in the Olympics. And in the olympics, GDR was leading up to the alst runner in 4x100, but Gohr was passed easily by Ashford. I wonder if it would make any difference if Dreschler run the final leg (she's not in relay)
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i agree. to me the world is ALWAYS a level playing field. I just watch the world sport for what it is and enjoy the competition. Sometimes those who claimed to be clean, had torso that makes Ben johnson looks like a schoolboy. I remembered what ive read abt petra schneider after the fall of east german. She said (pertaining to winning the 400 medley) "10m is very far. It cant just only be due to drugs".
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From 1987 to 1988, I hear that Marlies Gohr's
leg condition was not good.
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The est of the world was doing thhe same thing but in private. People love to throw everything at the GDR and quite frankly its not right. Gohr was a fantastic athlete and worked like everyone else to get to where she was. Competed in every chamionship open to her. Respect. 1975-1988. Not many athletes out there devoted 13 years of the life to athletes. So props.
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Well, the drugs obviously helped her and her teammates endure training regimes that would have been simply unbearable for clean athletes, that was part of the cheating game.
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Gohr was part of the GDR doping programme and all her titles should be returned along with all the other cheats from the GDR.
I tend to agree but the problem is, where do you draw the line? It's obvious the GDR girls, Griffith-Joyner et al. cheated but how can you proclaim the rest of the field was clean? You disqualify the East Germans, right, but what do you base yourself on to award the remaining medals. Tests? We all know they were laughable in the 1980s.
zim83 3 years ago 3
i can not read it anymore. also if she would have been on steroids, she had to train hard to run so fast. it is an error to think only by taking drugs you can run so fast! she would not have been so successful if she had been sitting in a chair and watch tv the whole day!
ROUGHBULL 3 years ago 2