Olympic champion Udo Beyer (shot put 1976 in Montreal for GDR) admits doping

When is Waldo Cierpinski coming out of the closet?

And what about Lasse Vampiren and his blood doping?

Shotputters doping? I'm shocked. Have you ever seen Mac Wilkens today? He's skin and bones.

a couple of per cent not even close. From the stasi trials.

"The use of the drug rapidly spread to other kinds of sports, and according to Höppner, many, if not all, medal-winning GDR athletes in strength- and speed-dependent events at the Olympic Games of 1972 in Munich had been treated with Oral-Turinabol. The effects of the treatment with androgenic hormones were so spectacular, particularly in female athletes in strength-dependent events, that few competitors not using the drugs had a chance of winning.

In the GDR of the 1970s, the use of this and other androgenic hormones became customary among athletes, including minors. For a talented female athlete, it was a no-win situation: They could either take it (the drug) or leave it (give up competitive sports). The dosages were also drastically increased, at least until the late 1970s, when some of the damaging side effects became so overt that in the swimming events of the Olympic Games in Montreal 1976, where the GDR won 11 out of 13 events, journalists were inquiring about the strangely deep-sounding voices of the broad-shouldered GDR female swimmers.

In a summary report to the Stasi on March 3, 1977, SMD Deputy Director Höppner (Vol. II of his Stasi reports under the code name “Technik,” pp. 243–44), described the GDR results and concluded:

At present anabolic steroids are applied in all Olympic sporting events, with the exception of sailing and gymnastics (female)2 , … and by all national teams. The application takes place according to approved basic plans, in which special situations of individual athletes are also considered. The positive value of anabolic steroids for the development of a top performance is undoubted. Here are a few examples… Performances could be improved with the support of these drugs within four years as follows: Shot-put (men) 2.5–4 m; Shot-put (women) 4.5–5 m; Discus throw (men) 10–12 m; Discus throw (women) 11–20 m; Hammer throw 6–10 m; Javelin throw (women) 8–15 m; 400 m (women) 4–5 sec; 800 m (women) 5–10 sec; 1500 m (women) 7–10 sec… Remarkable rates of increase in performances were also noted in the swimming events of women… . From our experiences made so far it can be concluded that women have the greatest advantage from treatments with anabolic hormones with respect to their performance in sports… . Especially high is the performance-supporting effect following the first administration of anabolic hormones, especially with junior athletes. "

What is "water vaulting", diving?

Thinking about the case of "Surely Shirley", the US swimmer who was robbed of 4 gold medals by East German cheats. She was excoriated in the press for suggesting that the East German women were taking PEDs. Kind of like the same reaction as for people who question East African or Jamaican runners.

PC > all

It's a pretty garbled translation, likely done by an online translating bot, not a human. I'm guessing it balked at "pole vaulting" and somehow went to "pool vaulting" to "water vaulting"?

The what now wrote:

What is "water vaulting", diving?