Women's 400 IM

I'm german and have loved swimming since my youth-but the east german doping scandals of the early 80's affected me as a spectator.Now I usually am suspicious first when I see out of nowhere athletes perform unheard of feats-kinda takes the joy out of watching the sport sometimes. Which makes me wonder about the Lithuanian *** stroke swimmer---is a 15 yr old seriusly going to whoop Soni and co.'s butt? Yeah but being part German myself, I remember when Phelps won 8 Gold medals 4 years ago. In a German triathlon forum no one acknowledged his achievements. Instead they all accused him of doping which the German media does all the time, except when Biedermann or Steffen win. Then it's oddly all fair play(not to mention when Franzi van Almsick won silver at age 14 and broke the 200m freestyle world record and won Gold at the age of 16). I prefer giving these athletes the benefit of the doubt.

I'm german and have loved swimming since my youth-but the east german doping scandals of the early 80's affected me as a spectator.Now I usually am suspicious first when I see out of nowhere athletes perform unheard of feats-kinda takes the joy out of watching the sport sometimes. Which makes me wonder about the Lithuanian *** stroke swimmer---is a 15 yr old seriusly going to whoop Soni and co.'s butt? Yeah but being part German myself, I remember when Phelps won 8 Gold medals 4 years ago. In a German triathlon forum no one acknowledged his achievements. Instead they all accused him of doping which the German media does all the time, except when Biedermann or Steffen win. Then it's oddly all fair play(not to mention when Franzi van Almsick won silver at age 14 and broke the 200m freestyle world record and won Gold at the age of 16). I prefer giving these athletes the benefit of the doubt.