While Valerie Vili will continue to garner athletic titles and awards but one goal that all track and field athletes aspire to will undoubtedly elude her is the world record.
In the women’s shot put the current world record is 22.63 metres set by Natalya Lisovskaya from the former Soviet Union in 1987. This is still 2 metres better than Vili’s best of 20.56 metres set last year.
The fact remains that almost all women’s world records set by athletes from the former eastern bloc were aided by a programme of state sanctioned drug taking.
How many drug free athletes were robbed of Olympic medals by athletes who otherwise would who have little better than a run of the mill athlete.
Australian, Raylene Boyle was one such athlete. Boyle was denied a gold medal in the 200m at the 1972 Munich Olympics by an athlete, Renate Stecher, East German secret service files revealed was on the state-sponsored doping program.
The Australian revels that German coaches implicated in the doping of athletes in the former German Democratic Republic are still coaching to this day.
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