Here is a link that talks about the current drug-usage issue in Track & Field and contrasts it with U.S. swimmers' relatively clean image. It's is a bit of a fluff piece, and some of it seems doubtful, but it is something to chew on.
www.sfgate.com/.../article.cgi
-LBJ
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Yeah, the biggest cheaters in swimming were the East Germans. They made little money by western standards-little two bedroom apartments where they and they sibings and parents could live in. The government promise housing to them if they were successful. Also, the government pressured them to do it. As for swimming,most swimmers come from a middle class background compared to track and field people. The short races are dominated by Afro-Americans who come from a poorer background than most swimmers. The field events in college consist of many immirgants with student vistas in the NCAA's from Eastern Europeans. Most track people like swimmers have only a handful of people that get endorsements but coming from a poorer background may give them more motvation to cheat,who knows.
Yeah, the biggest cheaters in swimming were the East Germans. They made little money by western standards-little two bedroom apartments where they and they sibings and parents could live in. The government promise housing to them if they were successful. Also, the government pressured them to do it. As for swimming,most swimmers come from a middle class background compared to track and field people. The short races are dominated by Afro-Americans who come from a poorer background than most swimmers. The field events in college consist of many immirgants with student vistas in the NCAA's from Eastern Europeans. Most track people like swimmers have only a handful of people that get endorsements but coming from a poorer background may give them more motvation to cheat,who knows.
