Read more2Doping's Darkest Hour; The East Germans And The 1976 Montreal Games28 November 2013In the second day of our landmark five-day series announcing Swimming World's unprecedented move to strip the East German women of our prestigious World and European Swimmers of the Year awards, we look back at some of the people most victimized by the systematic doping regime. While East Germany's ...
Read more1Rare ISHOF Video of Team USA beating East German Swimmers in Dual Meet04 May 20151974 highlights from the USA vs. East German dual swimming meet in Concord California. At the height of the cold war, it was one of the most anticipated swimming meets in history and it did not disappoint the thousands of spectators who saw it. The US Team was led by Tim Shaw, John Naber and Shirley...
Read moreEmotional Reactions From Then-And-Now Regarding East German Award Strip04 December 2013Today, on the fourth of a five-day call to the International Olympic Committee to make things right regarding the drug-fueled East Germans of the 70s and 80s, we present to you some of the strongest reactions to our landmark decision to strip the East Germans of the World and European Swimmers of th...
Read moreThe Last Gold Chosen As An Official Program Selection For The 2016 LA Film Festival26 April 2016USA Swimming announced today that "The Last Gold" will have it's World Premiere at the 2016 LA Film Festival in Culver City, CA on June 6. The documentary, which features the story of the women's 1976 Olympic swim team and how they rallied against the East Germans to win gold, is one of twelve docum...
Read moreSTRIPPED! Swimming World Vacates Awards of GDR Drug-Fueled Swimmers01 December 2013Based on a mix of positive tests, personal admissions as well as doping admissions from their coaches, Swimming World Magazine has stripped Kornelia Ender, Ulrike Tauber, Petra Schneider, Ute Geweniger and Kristin Otto of their World Swimmer of the Year awards from the 1970s and '80s. Those five swi...
Read more152007 Vault: Shirley Babashoff Breaks 30-Year Silence on East Germany's Systematic Doping of Olympians05 February 20162016 is the 40th Anniversary of 1976 Olympics. The following article reflected on those games and the truth about that era. It was first published January 9, 2007 and Swimming World wants to share some of those painful lessons with today's readers. USA Swimming produced a documentary on the 1976 W...
Read more9Former Athletes Of East Germany Open Up About Unknown PEDs27 March 2018It has been a long time since East Germany ruled the Olympic games with performance-enhancing drugs. The issue in swimming has been brought to the forefront as Shirley Babashoff and the 1976 women’s swim team in the documentary “The Last Gold.” The documentary tells the story of the swimmers affecte...
Read moreExecutive Producer of "Doping for Gold" Talks About Making Revealing Documentary on The Morning Swim Show, Sept. 24, 200924 September 2009PHOENIX, Arizona, September 24. THE executive producer of a documentary detailing East Germany's systematic doping of its athletes is the highlight of today's edition of The Morning Swim Show. Host Peter Busch talks to Jared Lipworth about making "Doping for Gold," a documentary that chronicled how ...
Read more3USA Swimming and Tugg To Showcase "The Last Gold" Film Screenings Nationwide26 May 2016USA Swimming has announced a partnership with Tugg, Inc. to provide teams and individuals with increased opportunities to view "The Last Gold," a feature-length documentary on the 1976 women's Olympic team and how they rallied against the East Germans to win gold. Tugg allows individuals and swim te...
Read moreSwimming World Throwback Thursday Video: USA Women Win 400 Free Relay at 1976 Olympics05 December 2013KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, December 5. AS Swimming World continues to demand that the East German women's results be removed from the 1976 Olympic swimming records, here's a look back at one of the two events the East Germans were unable to win in the Montreal Games. The 400 free relay was the final swim...
Read moreThey Cheated. They Stole. They Lied.13 December 2007By Brent Rutemiller PHOENIX, Arizona, December 13. They set records. They became famous. They became rich. They cheated. They stole. They lied. They were idolized. They were paraded. They were crowned. They cheated. They stole. They lied. Marion Jones and the 1976 East Germans have a lot in common. ...
Read more1976 U.S. Olympic Head Coach Jack Nelson Tells Emotional Tale of Montreal28 November 2013We continue our focus on the uncrowned champions from the 1976 Montreal Olympics with the third day of our landmark five-day series announcing Swimming World's unprecedented move to strip the East German women of our prestigious World and European Swimmers of the Year awards. Heading into the last e...
Read more7The Last Gold Documentary to Air on NBC Sports Network on August 128 July 2016Considered one of the greatest untold stories in Olympic Swimming history, The Last Gold, a feature-length documentary, will air on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) with limited commercial interruption, on Monday, August 1, at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT. Produced by USA Swimming, The Last Gold details the ...
Read moreEast Germans14 November 1998Courtesy www.usswim.org Bill Hybl, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, met with International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch and requested "appropriate medal recognition" for the 1976 U.S. Olympic medley relay team of Linda Jezek, Lauri Siering, Camile Wright and Shirley Bab...
Read moreRare Audio Reliving 1976 USA Women's 400 Free Relay "Last Gold" Victory Over East Germans16 June 2016With all the buzz over USA Swimming's Last Gold Documentary, Swimming World republished a rarely heard audio interview with Jack Nelson. Nelson, was a major force in coaching the American women to gold over the East Germans in the 400 free relay at the 1976 Olympics. He had a storied coaching care...
Read more7Babashoff, Sterkel and Boglioli Welcome Duplicate Medals Mending 1976 Olympic Stain28 July 2016Commentary by Brent T. Rutemiller. When I stepped into the pressroom there were only a few people in the room. At first I thought I came at the wrong time or perhaps the wrong room. I glanced around and saw three middle-aged blonde women chatting and goofing around in the back. It was Jill Sterkel, ...
Read more37Shirley Babashoff Wants Her Place In History - Exclusive Swimming World TV Interview15 September 2016Shirley Babashoff sat down for an exclusive interview with SwimmingWorld.TV's Brent Rutemiller to discuss the 1976 Montreal Olympics and the systematic doping of the East German women swimmers. Rutemiller touched on a lot of subjects including Babashoff's place in history, The Last Gold Documentary,...
Read moreCall to the IOC: MAKE IT RIGHT!02 December 2013The past five days, Swimming World has laid out the background and the evidence of just how much the East German doping regime defrauded the athletic process in the 1970s and 1980s, going as far as vacating a fifth of the most prestigious awards in the sport of swimming. Today, we reiterate our call...
Read moreThe Winds of Change - An Avalanche of Doping Cheats Fall - Part Two04 July 2007By Steven V. Selthoffer BERLIN, Germany, July 10. STEVEN V. Selthoffer continues his two-part "The Winds of Change" series on SwimmingWorldMagazine.com as he addresses the anti-doping crusade. To read the first part, please click here. "When the going gets weird, the weird go pro." Jef D'Hont, retir...
Read more"The Last Gold": A Complete Piece, With Empathy; Review By Los Angeles Daily News06 June 2016For years Swimming World has been following and reporting on the events of the 1976 Montreal Olympics where the women of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) swept the medal stands, continually out-touching the women of the United States. "The Greatest Untold Story In Olympic Swimming History,"...