Gustav Klimt The Bride painting

Gustav Klimt The Bride painting
Gustav Klimt Hope painting

Carole Nitschke, who broke the world breaststroke record when she was 14, has voluntarily given back the medal she earned when she was unknowingly pumped with steroids.
They were Olympic champions who showed no mercy in the swimming pool. But many were also victims, betrayed by their government, coaches and doctors; they were athletes who traded their health for gold medals. The U.S. Olympic team watched in disbelief as East Germany — a country that had never won a single gold medal in women’s swimming — seemed unbeatable in 1976. Rumors were rampant that the “wonder girls,” the fastest, strongest athletes ever produced by East Germany, were on steroids — even though they passed every drug test they took.