Righting the wrongs of the state-orchestrated East German doping of the 1970s and 1980s will be anything but straightforward.
It’s a question that has haunted the International Olympic Committee, athletes and sports commentators for half a century: should athletes who were cheated by the state-orchestrated East German doping machine in the 1970s and 1980s now benefit from a rebending of history?
Ford was the sole non-Eastern Bloc female gold medallist of those Games, across 13 events. All bar one of the other 12 women’s swimming events had an East German winner, equalling the standout performance by that country’s female swimmers at the 1976 Olympics, with the other women’s swimming gold medallist coming from the Soviet Union.In total, East Germany won 26 of the 39 Olympic women’s swimming medals available in Moscow.
Given the breadth and importance of these issues, today I will look at the historical timeline and context of doping at the Olympics, including the measures introduced by the IOC in the 1960s and 1970s to deal with the threat to “fair” competition. Shocking, but hardly an isolated tragedy. The British cyclist Tommy Simpson zig-zagged, fell and died on his approach to the summit of Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour de France. Simpson, who was found to have traces of amphetamine in his body, was a household name in the UK and his inglorious and tragic death wasn’t a mere passing blip. It was televised.
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