A student documentary about the story of the 1976 USA Women's Olympic swimming team who battled against the steroid-riddled East Germans culminating in a race and story that will be remembered forever.
What a 3rd leg by Jill Sterkel! Wow. So THIS is why the name "Babashoff" is familiar to me. Always recognized the name, but couldn't remember where from. This explains it. Great anchor leg by Shirley.
I saw it on TV at the time, and I was never prouder of a U.S. team. It was thrilling how much heart and fighting spirit the U.S. women still had after losing race after race to doped-up mutants. Most people would have given up by then, but not Peyton, Boglioli, Sterkel, and Babashoff.
I highly respect West and live in the Western world , but USA is the least clean nation and proven to be doped to the gills . they for example never send US team basketball on OI if they are going to be tested . Croatia vs USA in Barcelona OI , how Croatian players felt when they played against ( like you said ) - mutants who were obviusly twice as big compared to skinny Croatians ? and guess what Croatians never complained and made documentaries about how USA had advantage in every aspect .. and Croatians and other teams congrats USA team . East Germany was nothing special , from where they get doping ?! From West , in Western part of Germany and world labs were developed to produce those drugs , that's the fact . It's highly immoral to accuse one nation and whole eastern bloc for cheating , while you are cheating yourself , and it was known among players that in West Bloc doping was more prevalent . Do they use doping in Cuba today ? Coaches need to mix sugar and water due to lack of money to give them proper glycogen replenishment . Still Cubans are winning because they are talented and have good sports system from childhood selection etc . I am totaly against communism and other totalitarian regimes thou , but they had superior sport system and invested a lot of money into their sports back in the day . Those athletes risked everything , they could even get killed if not winning . Best of athletes didn't even received any privileges and salaries like in the West . They all dreamed about moving to Western Bloc and having better life as champions . Give them proper respect , they are heroes , not villains .
American women were usin ' stuff , just not as much and they knew alot less about what they were doin ' . Plus the Rooskies and Eastern Bloc cunt trees didn't care about individuals, as long as they won. Just look up Heidi Krieger .
15 year old Jill Sterkel blew the opposition away! What al relay leg she delivered. After that Babashoff just maintained the lead that was given to her. Wonderful!
I have a good friend who swam and won a Gold medal as part of the US Olympic team. She said the East German swimmer were monsters. Their voices were very masculine and they had hair growing on their backs and faces. Sound like a red flag. They beat the system but were most definitely dirty.
Wow that's some experience your friend had. Women transitioning into muscle monsters.. now we have this transgender issue with still biological males that haven't fully transitioned and measuring a lower testosterone count but how could they still allowed them to participate in women sports. It's very confusing.. how do we put that in perspective is there an analogy here with drugs turning women with more male traits. And today in the year 2000s men are transitioning into women but still have the same muscular structure as men it's a real mind blower and it doesn't sound fair. Well on that note why don't they drop the mail and female swim team all together and just have a unisex swim team see how many women are going to win the sports. I'll bring a lot of brouhaha to the issue instead of being steamrolled by The advocates
Why weren't the gold and silver medals, awarded to the two female East German swimmers at the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal, recalled (when the weightlifting medal given to the same country's athlete was) and the rightful champion, Nancy Garapick of Canada, vaulted to her legitimate place as the gold medalist. I wrote to the Canadian Olympic Committee about this scandal and didn't even receive a reply. As recently as this year's Paris Olympics, a Canadian commentator, in the heat featuring Canadian Kylie Masse, listed the five Canadian women (and their rank) who had received medals in this event throughout history, named Garapick as having won a bronze medal. Why hasn't this injustice been corrected and named Garapick as the clean swimming champion that she was?
Why weren't the gold and silver medals, awarded to the two female East German swimmers at the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal, recalled (when the weightlifting medal given to the same country's athlete was) and the rightful champion, Nancy Garapick of Canada, vaulted to her legitimate place as the gold medalist. I wrote to the Canadian Olympic Committee about this scandal and didn't even receive a reply. As recently as this year's Paris Olympics, a Canadian commentator, in the heat featuring Canadian Kylie Masse, listed the five Canadian women (and their rank) who had received medals in this event throughout history, named Garapick as having won a bronze medal. Why hasn't this injustice been corrected and named Garapick as the clean swimming champion that she was?
Off the record East German coaches had a saying regarding steroids in women's swimming: "We are able to make women into men, but we can't turn men into fish."
@@sriddle3569 but the trans are actual men so its even better than doping women with steroids because we can dope men with steroid then stop for a month or so and put a wig on and call him a woman. But honestly most of these trans women probably cant compete at an olympic level anyway.
Nancy Garapick was a "gold" fish who has been "bronzed" unjustly into history by the failure of the IOC and its Canadian branch to award her as the lympic champion she was as I report below: Why weren't the gold and silver medals, awarded to the two female East German swimmers at the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal, recalled (when the weightlifting medal given to the same country's athlete was) and the rightful champion, Nancy Garapick of Canada, vaulted to her legitimate place as the gold medalist. I wrote to the Canadian Olympic Committee about this scandal and didn't even receive a reply. As recently as this year's Paris Olympics, a Canadian commentator, in the heat featuring Canadian Kylie Masse, listed the five Canadian women (and their rank) who had received medals throughout history, named Garapick as having won a bronze medal. Why hasn't this injustice been corrected and named Garapick as the clean swimming champion that she was?
The east German coaches had a good sense of humor 😂... Another saying I heard was, when confronted with their female swimmers having very low voices "we came here to swim not to sing" 😂
larciabella female androgens, blood doping, HGH therapy, cardiovascular enhancement drugs such as kyno or sus, gene therapy the list goes on when money and political motives are on the line anything and everything will be used.
I know optimism is mandatory in the US and realism is frowned upon but that last sentence "the clean athletes will always find a way to win" is just such obvious bullshit...
Lol I know trashing on America is mandatory, especially when on social media platforms, so please explain where you get “optimism is mandatory”?! It’s almost comical how this is about how notorious E Germany was for doping, yet so many weirdos in the comments keep saying “nuh uh….America bad too”.
@@isitoveryet9525 also as an asside America basically accuses anyone who beats them on a grand scale in the olympics of cheating in some way and we are almost always right. How can we tell that every country that systematically beats us is cheating? Because we're cheating. If they cheat more than us its too much for us to bear. Why is it that only the russians and chinese who have had inhumane gymnastics training camps are able to beat US gymnasts when our gymnasts are just free and happy and do gymnastics by choice because we like it? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!?! Ive watched olympic gymnastics as long as i can remember and this has never been answered.
@@isitoveryet9525 He literally quoted the idea of the American Dream - anyone can make it, if you just work hard. That is the pinaccle of optimism, cause statistically untrue.
East Germans and Americans were clearly ahead of the rest, but only the east Germans were roided 😂. Gotta love how always everyone who beats USA athletes is the only one who is dirty.
The East Germans were well ahead of their time with their doping system since it was government/state sponsored. The US never had anything remotely close to that level; their success was due to numerous swim clubs throughout the country and collegiate level swimming. Those athletes were considered amateurs and pretty much had to find their own funding during their swimming careers (unlike today where athletes can obtain corporate sponsorship).
@@_M_V_ Yes, doping is more prevalent now. But, I am referring to the 1970's and early 80's when the EG doping system was 2nd to none. The obvious signs showed in their muscular and over bulked athletes particularly the female swimmers and track athletes. They clearly had bodies similar to males. During that time, you just didn't see that with US athletes. This isn't to say doping didn't exist within the US, but not on a national scale similar to the Eastern Bloc nations.
Four Seasons With all the respect, you are too naive. First of all, you don’t need to look like the hulk to be on steroids. Second, USA athletes almost always have had almost the same results as the athletes from other nations that have been caught “cheating”(I don’t know if it really is cheating since everyone is using anabolics). Everyone is using them, they have been invented since the 20s(early forms of testosterone, not like nowadays). It’s just a matter of who’s being caught using them or, better put, who they want to be caught using them.
at 13:54 that's the 100m Backstroke podium with Nancy Garapick from Canada winning bronze behind Brigitte Treiber and Ulrike Richter of East Germany. 4th, 5th place were Wendy Cook-Hogg, and Cheryl Gibson of Canada...If the East Germans were disqualified for doping, Canada would have had a 1,2,3 sweep!
If someone doped me without my knowledge, I win Olympic Gold, later I learn I unintentionally cheated, then I would mail, hand deliver or somehow give my gold medal to the next finisher who did not cheat. None of the East Germans have done that. That's amazing. None of them have the personal integrity to return what they wrongly won.
Exactly, Pamela! Why weren't the gold and silver medals, awarded to the two female East German swimmers at the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal, recalled (when the weightlifting medal given to the same country's athlete was) and the rightful champion, Nancy Garapick of Canada, vaulted to her legitimate place as the gold medalist. I wrote to the Canadian Olympic Committee about this scandal and didn't even receive a reply. As recently as this year's Paris Olympics, a Canadian commentator, in the heat featuring Canadian Kylie Masse, listed the five Canadian women (and their rank) who had received medals in this event throughout history, named Garapick as having won a bronze medal. Why hasn't this injustice been corrected and named Garapick as the clean swimming champion that she was?
Nobody wrote anything about the East Germans because the virtually lived in a world of their own called the communist bloc. And nobody had any solid evidence of doping until the E German secret police files were found after the fall of the wall. Even then, like some notable athletes in the west, none of their stars were connected to doping on the files although we know the Statsi doped children as young as 12 who they thought were athletically gifted so it is highly improbable that Koch and the others did their times unaided by chemical enhancers. Honestly I don’t know why they have not found a way to take back their medals and erase their WRs
WADA needs to get rid of the statue of limitation for doping violations. This way as medical technology and analysis improves, they can check the blood and urine samples of all athletes, even 20 years later.
@@analcommando1124 hey you dumb @ss, yes I know they go as far back as 10 years. If you read my comment I said they should get rid of the statute of limitations, i.e. no time limit as to how long back they can test samples.
Документальный фильм «Все в допинге» ... Студенческий документальный фильм об истории женской олимпийской сборной США по плаванию 1976 года, которая сражалась против пронизанных стероидами восточных немцев, кульминацией которых стала гонка и история, которая запомнится навсегда.
Doping will be always a 'gray area' in sports. It is quite interesting that the Kornelia Ender's body at 15:32 is very similar to currect bodies of elite female swimmers from many countries. ¿Is this an outcome of training, sports science ans approved nutrition supplements evolution?
Very sad, the swimming clubs had total control over the girls who swam. Not as if they could go home after training like everyone else. In sports like Gymnastics, girls were given drugs who were as young as 10- talk about coaches abusing trust and how could doctors live with themselves.
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As a matter of fact Heidi Krieger shot put thrower of G D R got to choose to stay as a man after many years of doping....turinabol of Jenapharm was one of the drugs that eastgermans athletes use to take....
By the mid 80's I gave up following or caring about the Olympics or pro sports. The drugs, hypocrisy and cynicism the world over earned my total contempt.
Most of the comments posted here are at best annoying and in actuality highly self-centered. This documentary is not about a small specific group of people. This is about a major problem that has affected all of sport for decades. All of us who have trained for years and continually got our clock cleaned by drug users every time we competed have the same story to tell. These girls are no different than tens of thousands of other athletes in that respect. You people that always need to personalize this stuff need to come out of your little caves and stop feeling sorry for yourself and think you are something special because you dealt with a little "adversity". Welcome to the real world with the rest of us.
The American women also had imposing musculatures in the 1970s. Members of the relay, also had deep voices. Cut to almost 50 years later, Katie Ledecky also has a very deep voice! When she won her first gold medal, she improved her time by over 10 seconds. At the 1978 worlds, Cynthia Woodhead of USA beat the GDR swimmers, then vanished by the early 80s?! The USA has never been clean, either!
Warning, Warning, Nut Job Alert! There are government documents in GDR proving the East German women were doping? Bet you feel pretty STUPID right now.
I think sometimes it's just natural masculinity of such women, who because of it have an advantage in early teenage years already. The women tend to be taller and generally more masculine appearing than the average woman. Ledecky is 6 ft tall and basically since childhood had a pattern of male baldness.
Very well done. This was made before the current doping scandal happened (2022 Beijing Team Figure Skating event, where a *minor* from Russia tested positive). If that minor had been American, that coaching team would have been investigated for child abuse, but in mother Russia, the ends justify the means…
I dated a East German Girl athlete once! I was happy after a couple of minutes but she wanted to go all night! I always thought she was on something 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Here's a reply on the hypocrisy of the IOC in this matter: Why weren't the gold and silver medals, awarded to the two female East German swimmers at the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal, recalled (when the weightlifting medal given to the same country's athlete was) and the rightful champion, Nancy Garapick of Canada, vaulted to her legitimate place as the gold medalist. I wrote to the Canadian Olympic Committee about this scandal and didn't even receive a reply. As recently as this year's Paris Olympics, a Canadian commentator, in the heat featuring Canadian Kylie Masse, listed the five Canadian women (and their rank) who had received medals in this event throughout history, named Garapick as having won a bronze medal. Why hasn't this injustice been corrected and named Garapick as the clean swimming champion that she was?
USA girls Montreal 1976 win over GDR's best doping team. There you go: 13:03 "...on the clean side" 13:17 "without using any enhancements", 13:20 they did it out of "pure talent and adren... adrenaline"! (; And off-screen narrator: 13:34 "It was a victory well earned (...) 13:46 feeling that in the end the light does hold off the darkness." *U S A !* (:
I blame the IOC for allowing the GDR to even compete past the 72 Olympics , let alone not sending them packing when these science projects got off the plane in Canada . GDR was the size of NJ with 17 million people, yet had 90 medals with 40 gold? They should of done to then what they are finally doing with the Russians.
I don't know if that's really what they're doing now with Russia. To prove that they really mean it, they need to keep Russia out of all Olympics for as long as Russia cannot positively prove that they're done with the doping (meaning, that they don't encourage it anymore, and that they do their very best to catch dopers). Oh, and the IOC should ban for life any athlete caught doping, and any coach/administrator caught helping an athlete dope.
Whatever, East Germans sucked at 1972 Olympics. They got bigger within one year. It was obvious and to this day i dont understand why hardly anybody knew about this and they got to keep their medals and changed NOTHING in the records. Too much paperwork i guess?
Why have the Germans not been stripped of their medals and re-awarded USA the Gold for all those Silvers? Others have, especially the USA Track & Field athletes.
why havent the USA been stripped of all the medals and world records of Flo Jo, Jones, Carl Lewis? are you really so naive to think the Eastern Bloc were ahead of the West in anything during the Cold War with all that was at stake? The USA are still at it as is Russia, only a few years ago top US athletic training programme the Oregon project was exposed for doping including multiple Olympic champions and medalists from last few Olympics. Did it never cross your mind the west boycotted Moscow and the Eastern Bloc boycotted LA84 as they knew they couldnt prevent their athletes being tested? the IOC failed to publish the test results of many top athletes at LA or Seoul including the 2 most successful US gold medallists to avoid scandals exposing western gold medallists.
It's a good question. The IOC is messed up and conservative--they are hesitant to go back *that* far (IMO) and strip medals from 40+ years ago and set a precedent. But the East German program was *so* egregious--they flouted the law *so* flagrantly (FS, one of the EG women ended transitioning to be a man, and not really by choice) that I kind of think they should.
@@danan9061we dont excuse you x wanting to be the only ones to get dopped 😅. Anyway its a bad attempt : actually the brittons & partially the russians are on your steps, the rostbeeafs since 20yrs, twenty years of cheats & robbed medals !!
@@darbyheavey406 none is funnier than an american who claims his country win honestly in some sports -:) !! The eastern block got dopped since middle of 70s till end of 80s ( Russia postcommunist is another matter ) and mainly on womens competitions, the USA since 1983 to present time, both men & women ( UK started from 2008 Olymp). Can you do your maths and count how many victories cheated the communist block and how many the US sport ??🙂🤔
Ben Johnson is Canadian you simple twat. And this video is talking about the US swimmers of this era. Not track and field of the future. Feel good to be so far off the mark and clearly displayimg irelevant ignorance ? FFS.🤦♂️
@@zvbxin this documentary though they let the Americans get away with beating those roided beasts from the east germans "clean" "without enhancements" for once in their life 😂... These usa female swimmers were taking stuff too.. they look sus too.
I highly respect West and live in the Western world , but USA is the least clean nation and proven to be doped to the gills . they for example never send US team basketball on OI if they are going to be tested . Croatia vs USA in Barcelona OI , how Croatian players felt when they played against ( like you said ) - mutants who were obviusly twice as big compared to skinny Croatians ? and guess what Croatians never complained and made documentaries about how USA had advantage in every aspect .. and Croatians and other teams congrats USA team . East Germany was nothing special , from where they get doping ?! From West , in Western part of Germany and world labs were developed to produce those drugs , that's the fact . It's highly immoral to accuse one nation and whole eastern bloc for cheating , while you are cheating yourself , and it was known among players that in West Bloc doping was more prevalent . Do they use doping in Cuba today ? Coaches need to mix sugar and water due to lack of money to give them proper glycogen replenishment . Still Cubans are winning because they are talented and have good sports system from childhood selection etc . I am totaly against communism and other totalitarian regimes thou , but they had superior sport system and invested a lot of money into their sports back in the day . Those athletes risked everything , they could even get killed if not winning . Best of athletes didn't even received any privileges and salaries like in the West . They all dreamed about moving to Western Bloc and having better life as champions . Give them proper respect , they are heroes , not villains .
It would cool if we had 2 Olympics, 1 for clean athletes and another for doping athletes, it would be interesting to see how advanced the science can evolve, I'm a bif Tour de France fan and imo it was alot more exciting around the Armstrong era when they went full bore everyday in the mountains, it can get a bit boring now when a rider gets a 2 minute lead overall and just keeps it for 2 weeks, Dope Olympics would be dope, might be hard to keep them under control though.
That woman is pure gold! They got first in front of a GDR-Team with female athletes fully on roids. And they did that all out of talent. Sure! You can see she is lying about it.
Women swimmers now have lats that protrude grotesquely from their swim suits and some have been seen doing pull ups with 25 lbs attached. But nutrition has not improved in any way.
Tremendous leg by Sterkel. The moderator has no freaking clue on how to read the winning time. He said "3 point 4482 seconds". What in the hell is that? Is this another product of the American edumacation system?
I think that's part of what they called the 'new math' that we missed in the late sixties in Brooklyn. But it didn't take off until the early 70s right
IOC funds the drug testing organization! So, the IOC can dictate who gets randomly tested and who does not! The Kenyan distance runners rarely get randomly tested.
They shud test all the frozen samples from the past ,testing is way more advanced now ! There will be a hell of a lot of gold medals have to be handed back !
This IS the greatest moment in sports history as we all now know the East Germans used drugs...our gals did it fair and square....makes these ladies the BEST ever xxxx
I have to laugh at all of the finger pointing in this comments section, as if anyone's (successful) athletes weren't/aren't using something. People pretending like East Germany or the Eastern Bloc were the lone pioneers of doping when the 1970's Pittsburgh Steelers are known to have been all gassed up are being intellectually dishonest.
Sigh HE already felt different that was not what he meant by that the drugs forced him to come out when he was not ready don't blame that on steroids it had nothing to do with identity.
I would rather just let them do whatever they want, since it seems like too many are already doing it anyway. Even today I look at top level athletes and many do not even look human, especially in the NFL.
Just let women dope .,,, what’s the point anymore. Just have open competition Women Sports unfortunately always feels like people have tried to game or cheat for years. Lia Thomas clear advantage… just let women dope to match her advantage.
