fruitFLIESxD (October 1, 2008 at 5:48 am)

HAHA i didnt get what happened.. looked as fresh as a butercup!

floatfloaton (August 30, 2008 at 9:12 pm)

he looks as fresh as a buttercup.......

chatman2a (August 24, 2008 at 5:07 am)

Any lowlife scum who would mock someone because of an obvious typographical error is an "idoit;" Ergo, YOU, my friend are an "idoit!"

cicirunner (August 20, 2008 at 8:04 am)

yea hopefully Ryan Hall will change it.

pellebravesskylar (August 18, 2008 at 12:05 am)

Thanks for this information. It really does make sense given that Cierpinksi was a former steeplechaser who entered his first marathon "on a whim" in 1974. And it really sucks that Cierpinksi won again in 1980 - the only person besides Abebe Bikila to win 2 Olympic marathons. What an insult to the memory of Bikila who died so tragically young. I wonder who on the East German team wasn't taking drugs back then - the gymnasts perhaps? Thanks ago for this very interesting info.

zenmachinefilms (August 17, 2008 at 8:50 pm)

Although not a great book, Faust's Gold goes into some detail on the East German doping machine and looks into some of the records that Dr. Franke uncovered. Though there isn't a direct line with Cierpinski's name and listed drugs next to it, when Franke deciphered the coding books, it seemed quite apparent that Cierpinski had blood doped, and used small amounts of steroids at the time.

1981aLaN (August 17, 2008 at 6:21 pm)

(cont) Shorter, a lawyer, began to push to have the East German results, including Cierpinski's, overturned. Although unsuccessful, Shorter continued the fight against performance-enhancing drugs, serving as the chairman of the US Anti-Doping Agency from 2000 to 2003."

1981aLaN (August 17, 2008 at 6:19 pm)

This is from the 2008 edition of The Complete Book Of The Olympics:"After the fall of the Iron Curtain, documents began to surface proving widespread drug use among East German athletes. In 1997, Shorter, convinced that Cierpinski had taken prohibited drugs, wrote to Dr Werner Franke, the German scientist who helped uncover the file. Franke provided Shorter with evidence that Cierpinski had indeed been taking steroids.

pellebravesskylar (August 17, 2008 at 4:40 pm)

How was he cheated? I thought that the rainy weather in Montreal hampered him. Was Waldemar Cierpinski ever involved in any doping allegations? I know Cierpinski was East German but never heard of any drug implications for the East German men (that seemed to involved exclusively the women's teams). Any info you can provide would be interesting.

pellebravesskylar (August 17, 2008 at 4:31 pm)

Shorter won silver in 1976 and Joan Benoit won the inaugeral women's gold medal in 1984. Other than a bronze medal in 2004, it's been kind of a dry run for the Yanks.