jeff tallon wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZchQ9sh-LEsay what you will,this is an amazing race to watch.kratochvilova and koch were awesome,super talented athletes,and we havent seen their like,since.Yes they likely took industrial strength steroids,but the talent had to be there,to begin with.Its interesting that even with todays full time athletes,drugs,and training improvements,no woman can come close to jarmila kratochvilova,or marita koch.
It is kind of sad when you think about it, some of those Eastern Bloc female athletes did not dope by choice and ended up with all sorts of medical conditions before age 30. The dope they were own in some cases was the same stuff being given race horses. A good friend of mind raced against some of those ladies in the mid-80s and recalled several occasions seeing women with shaving kits and having enlarged areas where there shouldn't be.