tyui wrote:
Sad as it is, he fits the ped profile exactly. Mid/late 1970s. Eastern block/communist country. Polish coach. Makes an Olympic semi in year 2 of training. World record in the Oly final after training for the event 1 year.
Wikipedia:
Considering that after the Berlin Wall fell it eventually was revealed that the East German's, Poles and Soviets all had doping programs, it is fairly likely that Jaunto was dirty.
The funny thing is the IAAF know this, and he's still an ambassador for the sport.
It is pathetic, and we know now that W. Cierpinksi (sp) was on steroids, and the IOC has done nothing to strip him of his gold medal -- nor has he had the ethics to confess and turn it in.
You have to wonder about the morals and ethics of some of these former Soviet, EG, and Polish athletes, does anyone know any stories of any of their medal winners coming clean and offering their ill gotten medals back??
I know many of them did not know that their program enforced and prescribed vitamin programs included steroids at the time...but in retrospect you'd think a few would have a conscious and have some ethics, realizing they had an unfair advantage -- and cheated, and want to honor athletes that competed fairly.
Any stories??
And I just wonder what time limitations the IOC thinks is enough to obviate ethics.
If Marion Jones is guilty, 100's of former Soviet, EG, and Polish athletes are guilty. The evidence was found; paperwork etc., records of EG own testing program by which they withdrew athletes from the games at the last minute if they showed in EG tests that they would likely test positive at the games etc. Old Waldemere(sp) and his clones are all frauds.
Born in Santiago de Cuba, Juantorena first played basketball, until he was discovered by a Polish track coach, Zygmunt Zabierzowski, who convinced him to start running. Only a year later, Juantorena was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 400 m event at the Munich Olympics (1972).
Juantorena became better known in the next years, winning a gold medal at the World University Games (1973) and a silver at the 1975 Pan American Games, both in the 400 m. He only seriously took up running the 800 m in 1976, so few thought he was a candidate for the Olympic gold that year. However, Juantorena made it to the Olympic final, and led the field for most of the race, eventually winning in a world record time of 1:43.50. Three days later, he also won the 400 m final, setting a low-altitude world record of 44.26.