1984 gold medalist in the women's 800m.

btw- "her" world record has stood ever since.

I'm all for treating people with dignity but this is wrong. Women are being cheated.

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GO BEARS!!!

Nas is stuck in 1956.

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The stories of the 70-80's women athletes after long term juicing (esp. the E. Germans) are stunning. Not worthy of sympathy per se, but bracing nevertheless.

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Have you seen this documentary, Last Gold? It's about what was probably the greatest women's swimming team (maybe until the U.S. team this year). I think Shirley Babashoff is still probably the greatest all-around female swimmer ever. She's like the female Michael Phelps. But she didn't get the gold medals because juiced up Germans beat her almost every time. Babashoff is still pissed forty years later. But I do have sympathy for the East German women. They didn't really have a choice. If they didn't go along they'd never be able to get a job. The Stasi would fuck with their families. They didn't even know what exactly they were taking. They started them on this stuff when they were 10 or 11. One of the women said she used to spit the pills they gave her in the pool when she could get away with it. One of the Americans on the relay team that finally beat the Germans, Jill Sterkel, said she felt bad for them. She said something like, "I'll take my silver medals, they can keep the golds and all the health problems that go with them."

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Same with Flo Jo. Not that she wasn't a chick, but she was as juiced up as this person.

When did camel toe become camel dick?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

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I remember some South African teenager who looked like a little boy going up against the American who was slightly attractive but NBC made out to be hot in the LA Olympics in distance running

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Zola Budd and Mary Decker. Decker acted like Hillary Clinton, as if she somehow deserved to win a gold medal. She tripped and blamed Budd, in a terrible display of poor sportsmanship.

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I watched this and it was a total sham.

Felt terrible for the actual women in the 800, you could tell they were all pissed off about it.


My question about all of this....Was Castor a track athlete sprinter when /she/he was a man? Or was this something she/he picked up after the transformation?

If it was the latter that strikes me as purely opportunistic.

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It's pure opportunism either way. The Olympics is such a total shit show. Always has been, but now it's even more insane.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

The solution: test everyone's gender. Because of all those women pretending to be men.

It's poorly written, ignorant and with plenty of complaining mixed in. Pure DiCaro. http://culturess.com/2016/08/23/olympics-test-everyone/

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

She's not a sex change. She has ambiguous genitalia and has lived as a woman her entire life.

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Nice try but that's obviously a picture of Steve Largent from the Superstars in 79. Not everyone here is a naive millenial.

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Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

i just read a "where are they now" kind of piece on Zola Budd in Runner's World. She has led quite a life since then. She spoke of how after that happened in the race she didn't even want to win a medal as people booed her as she continued on. She faded back in the pack and did not medal but it was almost a relief, she was afraid she would have to go on the medal stand and listen to 100,000 people boo her, and she was just a kid racing for a "rent-a-country" that was not even her homeland (she was a South African racing for the UK through a loophole, her father was British). South Africa was not competing due to Apartheid so if she wanted to go to the Olympics that was her only way, and the people of Great Britain did not embrace her at all. she took tons of abuse from British fans, American fans and even Decker, and Decker never "forgave" her and always has seemed to think she deserved some sort of apology. If you watched any of the mid-long distance track races at this years Olympics you saw it is a physical sport where fighting for position is not always polite, there is a lot of pushing and shoving and crossing over. Decker was always a front-runner and frankly didnt know what to do when she fell behind in that race and got boxed in.

Budd has continued running through it all, and has become a fantastic Masters (over 40) ultra-marathoner. I think she coaches cross-country for some small university in the US, and has strangely become a crowd favorite when she races. She races regularly and routinely beats much younger athletes in all distances. Zola Budd was no villain, she was just a kid being used as a pawn by her very domineering father and was in the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances.

not that anyone gives a shit, but there you have it!

Budd was famous for running barefoot, though I'm not sure if she was barefoot in the race where Decker fell. As for Decker, like I said, it was like Hillary Clinton, she thought it was "her turn". She was a very precocious runner and would have been a serious contender in the distance events in 1972, but I believe she was too young at 12 or 13 and USOC rules prevented her from making the team. In '76 she was injured. 1980 was the U.S. boycott. So in 1984 it was supposed to be her gold. When it went badly, she was a less than gracious loser.

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yes, budd was running barefoot, but she later ran in shoes. mary decker was a magnificent middle-distance runner, just dominant. it is a shame she never won her medals, but she did have her chances, albeit past her prime (she raced in Seoul in '88 and in '96 in Atlanta).

I just spit out adult beverage

That's a guy, for fucks sake...she's got a bigger dick than scooter.

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I believe we have a BINGO!

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Go Cubs!!!!

The ultimate answer here is to get rid of womens sports due to the inherent unfairness in treating genders differently. Let them all compete together.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Following certain logic you would think so.

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