The Last Gold Documentary World Premiere - (Tag)

In 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 ...

2016 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...

1974 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...

First Published in PHOENIX, Arizona January 3. THIS is an open letter asking FINA to recognize all victims during the DDR Olympic reign. Swimming World Magazine and SwimVortex.com are asking the swimming community worldwide to join in their request by SIGNING THE OPEN LETTER ONLINE. Dear FINA Board ...

Based 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...

Shirley 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,...

We 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...

Considered 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 ...

As the 2016 Rio Olympic Games wrap up with today's Closing Ceremony in Rio Swimming World wanted to take a moment to remember the Olympic Games that took place forty years ago and all who suffered during those Olympic Games in Montreal. The Current, a popular radio show based out of Canada through C...

PHOENIX, 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 ...

The California Senate took a major step forward in recognizing the injustices of the 1976 Olympic Games where the East German women swimmers won all but one gold medal in the pool. Senate Resolution 88 urges the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to address the wrong created by the East German pe...

By Phillip Whitten Dick Pound, Vice President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has been outspoken in his denunciation of doping in sport. So, too, have US Senators John McCain (R., Ariz.) and Jim Bunning (R., Ky.), who introduced legislatio...

By 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. ...

Courtesy 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...

PHOENIX, Arizona, February 4. THE February issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download to Total Access Subscribers! On page 8 of the February Swimming World Magazine, Publisher Brent Rutemiller shares some of the comments from around the world expressing support of the Open Letter...

The 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...

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 25. TWO Hall of Fame inductions highlight Friday's edition of The Morning Swim Show, one in water polo and the other in swimming To view this show click here. In the news segment, host Brent Rutemiller talks about USA Water Polo's move to a new headquarters in California, the...

Today, 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...

PHOENIX - Today marks the 35th anniversary of the USA Hockey team's defeat of the Russian Hockey team at the 1980 Olympic Games as the miracle on ice.  Many believe that this was the greatest underdog Olympic moment in history.  We at Swimming World Magazine believe that the greatest upset of all ti...

With 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...