2016 is the 40th Anniversary of 1976 Olympics. The following article reflected on those games and the truth about that era. Â It was first published January 9, 2007 and Swimming World wants to share some of those painful lessons with today’s readers. Â USA Swimming produced a documentary on the 1976 Women’s team called Last Gold. Â The movie will be released this spring along with a number of books on the subject. Â It is important that the sport remembers its past to safeguard its future. –Â By Brent Rutemiller
IT was reported in January of  2007, that one hundred and sixty-seven former East German (DDR) athletes will be financially compensated through Germany’s Olympic Committee for the systematic doping of DDR athletes from 1973 through 1989. When told of this fact, Shirley Babashoff‘s first comment was, “Only 167 Athletes!”
Reports from the East German Cold War Stasi files, first obtained by Phil Whitten and reported in Swimming World Magazine, indicated that more than 10,000 athletes were party to the abuse; most unknowingly and without parent permission. Many of the women have gone on to experience psychological problems or have delivered children with birth defects from the after-effects of doping.
“It is really sad that it has taken this long before someone even thought about the people,” said Babashoff. As a member of the USA Women’s Olympic Swim Team, she was the most visible victim of the injustice during the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada.
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