The 1976 USA Women’s Olympic Team was right to cry foul. The USA team set nine American records at those Olympic Games only to see every record eclipsed by an East German swimmer riding high in ...

Olympic sports officials in unified ... competitor's edge to her voice when she talks about 1976. "I just feel like some of them, the East German women, still feel like we were taking steroids ...

The 1976 Olympics weren’t going well for the U.S. women’s swim team. After many subpar results for the U.S., contrasted by the success of the East German women, the four Americans in the 400 ...

Shirley Babashoff (left) won four silver medals at the 1976 Montreal Olympics ... and it was the East German women." Olympic etiquette dictates that athletes take surprises like that in stride.

The interview also elaborates on East Germany’s near sweep of the ... talks about the final women’s event on the Olympic program in 1976: the women’s 400 free relay. The East Germans had ...

By the 1976 Olympics in Montreal ... Babashoff never saw anything wrong in what she said about the East German women — “I said what everyone else thought but that no one wanted to say, ...

She was a member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic women’s swim team, the one that swam against — and mostly lost to — an East German team later proven to have doped its way to 11 of 13 gold medals ...

All bar one of the other 12 women’s swimming events had an East German winner, equalling the standout performance by that country’s female swimmers at the 1976 Olympics, with the other women ...

After the reunification of Germany in 1990, a treasure trove of documents held by the then-defunct East German secret ... By the time of the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, in Munich and Montreal ...

Olympic sports officials in unified ... competitor's edge to her voice when she talks about 1976. "I just feel like some of them, the East German women, still feel like we were taking steroids ...