IAAF inducts Marita Koch into Hall of Fame

Legal doping is still cheating. Steroids were legal in the 70's. Everything was legal in the 60's. Transfusions were legal through half the 80's. Nobody now thinks that was fair or honest.

Are they going to induct you into the business hall of fame?

Loot wrote:

along with Marion Jones, who inexplicably still has some of her times recognized in the books.

It's not inexplicable. It's a shame is what it is.

^This^

The IAAF is indeed a failure, imo. A complete failure.

basically, she's German and what Germans want goes in the IAAF. That's the only sense I can make of this. It is very well-documented that Koch and the marathoner and the whole East German women's team, like the whole Eastern bloc, was doping. In fact, I even knew an East German woman who was slated to be on the doping program in swimming until the wall fell.

bernie madoff wrote:

http://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/hall-of-fame-2014-inductees

Previously, they inducted Wang Junxia.

Marion Jones is the favorite for next year's induction.

Koch was just awesome - like Gladisch, Goehr, Dreschler, Kratochvilova, Olizarenko.....

The shame is that we'll never know how good they were as pure runners without the pharmacological boost.

Same as Flo Jo. I'm not too stressed about Koch being in the IAAF HoF - the IAAF is almost as corrupt as FIFA, so I kind of treat it with the contempt it deserves - just like all those baseball writers who were cheerleading Canseco, Caminiti, Sosa, McGwire and Bonds when they knew they were injecting creatine etc.

Pro sport is pretty much a joke. The NFL is a steroidal sh*tfest too.

If you want purity, perhaps you should stick with badminton?

The IAAF has never done a single thing, not one, to come to grips with the systematic Eastern European doping of the '60s and '70s and '80s, not one. As for Koch, the Stasi files tell you all you need to know.

Wossamotta wrote:

The IAAF has never done a single thing, not one, to come to grips with the systematic Eastern European doping of the '60s and '70s and '80s, not one.

Thank you for your revelatory insight.

Just like the NFL does nothing about woman-beaters until it becomes embarrassing and they have to respond.

Just like FIFA has done nothing about Qatar.

Just like the IOC did nothing about Sochi.........

And so it continues.

You expect the IAAF to bite the hand that feeds it ?

Do what I do - completely boycott the NFL and NCAA. Complete and utter boycott. No viewing figure, no website hits, no appareil purchases - nothing.

If everyone did what I do, they'd go out of business and sport would be reborn :-)

15 times under 49 seconds (2nd best runner is Perec with 48.25), 16 world records in 11 years.

16 world records by cheating. Why even pretend otherwise? The proof is in her own writing.

Sergey Bubka; 35 WRs in a mere 10 years.

Edwin Moses: 5 WRs in 7 years.

Also, Edwin Moses won 122 straight 400H races (heats and finals). Obviously questionable.

S Bubka wrote:

Sergey Bubka; 35 WRs in a mere 10 years.

Well, to be fair, he did specifically only break the record by the minimum increment each time so as to maximize his income from WR bonuses from his federation. Quite smart, really.

Frightened Inmate number 5 wrote:

Koch was just awesome - like Gladisch, Goehr, Dreschler, Kratochvilova, Olizarenko.....

The shame is that we'll never know how good they were as pure runners without the pharmacological boost.

Same as Flo Jo.

Flo Jo? We know what her ability was w/o doping. Just look up the average performances she produced during her entire career before she suddenly dropped half a sec in the 100m (before abruptly retiring ahead of improved drug testing)

Well, if you think silver medals in the 200 at the 1984 Olympics and 1987 Worlds are "average." What's amazing is how much drugs transformed Flojo in a very short period of time. There was a clip of her and husband Al on some quiz show together in 1987. She still sounded like a soprano at that point.

Yes there is revisionist history in terms of her abilities. She was an elite sprinter clean or at least cleaner. That's probably why when she took a Ben Johnson type drug protocol she became the GOAT of female short sprinters.