geffel (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ross McWhirter was alive Until A.D. One-Nine-Seven-Five, When, upon a winter's day, His face was shot by the I.R.A. Our Norris, meanwhile, he but thrived, As if he'd taken on new life; Kids had he and married, twice. He was right-wing, but seemed quite nice. A life much blessed, so we would wish, He dropped stone dead playing lawn tennis(h).

fruitFLIESxD (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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

floatfloaton (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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

chatman2a (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

yea hopefully Ryan Hall will change it.

pellebravesskylar (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

(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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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.