The Last Gold Documentary World Premiere - (Tag)

In the second day of our landmark five-day series announcing Swimming World's unprecedented move to strip the East German women of our prestigious World and European Swimmers of the Year awards, we look back at some of the people most victimized by the systematic doping regime. While East Germany's ...

Based on a mix of positive tests, personal admissions as well as doping admissions from their coaches, Swimming World Magazine has stripped Kornelia Ender, Ulrike Tauber, Petra Schneider, Ute Geweniger and Kristin Otto of their World Swimmer of the Year awards from the 1970s and '80s. Those five swi...

2016 is the 40th Anniversary of 1976 Olympics. The following article reflected on those games and the truth about that era.  It was first published January 9, 2007 and Swimming World wants to share some of those painful lessons with today's readers.  USA Swimming produced a documentary on the 1976 W...

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 1. COMMENTS from around the world flooded into Swimming World Magazine after the posting of the exclusive article titled Shirley Babashoff Breaks 30-Year Silence on East Germany's 1976 Systematic Doping of Olympians The following are just some of the comments… Shirley is abso...

By Brent Rutemiller PHOENIX, Arizona, December 13. They set records. They became famous. They became rich. They cheated. They stole. They lied. They were idolized. They were paraded. They were crowned. They cheated. They stole. They lied. Marion Jones and the 1976 East Germans have a lot in common. ...

It has been a long time since East Germany ruled the Olympic games with performance-enhancing drugs. The issue in swimming has been brought to the forefront as Shirley Babashoff and the 1976 women’s swim team in the documentary “The Last Gold.” The documentary tells the story of the swimmers affecte...

Considered one of the greatest untold stories in Olympic Swimming history, The Last Gold, a feature-length documentary, will air on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) with limited commercial interruption, on Monday, August 1, at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT. Produced by USA Swimming, The Last Gold details the ...

The California Senate took a major step forward in recognizing the injustices of the 1976 Olympic Games where the East German women swimmers won all but one gold medal in the pool. Senate Resolution 88 urges the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to address the wrong created by the East German pe...

Commentary by Brent T. Rutemiller. When I stepped into the pressroom there were only a few people in the room. At first I thought I came at the wrong time or perhaps the wrong room. I glanced around and saw three middle-aged blonde women chatting and goofing around in the back. It was Jill Sterkel, ...

For years Swimming World has been following and reporting on the events of the 1976 Montreal Olympics where the women of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) swept the medal stands, continually out-touching the women of the United States. "The Greatest Untold Story In Olympic Swimming History,"...

With all the buzz over USA Swimming's Last Gold Documentary, Swimming World republished a rarely heard audio interview with Jack Nelson.  Nelson, was a major force in coaching the American women to gold over the East Germans in the 400 free relay at the 1976 Olympics.  He had a storied coaching care...

USA Swimming announced today that "The Last Gold" will have it's World Premiere at the 2016 LA Film Festival in Culver City, CA on June 6. The documentary, which features the story of the women's 1976 Olympic swim team and how they rallied against the East Germans to win gold, is one of twelve docum...

As the 2016 Rio Olympic Games wrap up with today's Closing Ceremony in Rio Swimming World wanted to take a moment to remember the Olympic Games that took place forty years ago and all who suffered during those Olympic Games in Montreal. The Current, a popular radio show based out of Canada through C...

By Steven V. Selthoffer BERLIN, Germany, July 10. STEVEN V. Selthoffer continues his two-part "The Winds of Change" series on SwimmingWorldMagazine.com as he addresses the anti-doping crusade. To read the first part, please click here. "When the going gets weird, the weird go pro." Jef D'Hont, retir...

Shirley Babashoff sat down for an exclusive interview with SwimmingWorld.TV's Brent Rutemiller to discuss the 1976 Montreal Olympics and the systematic doping of the East German women swimmers. Rutemiller touched on a lot of subjects including Babashoff's place in history, The Last Gold Documentary,...

1974 highlights from the USA vs. East German dual swimming meet in Concord California. At the height of the cold war, it was one of the most anticipated swimming meets in history and it did not disappoint the thousands of spectators who saw it. The US Team was led by Tim Shaw, John Naber and Shirley...

PHOENIX, Arizona, September 24. THE executive producer of a documentary detailing East Germany's systematic doping of its athletes is the highlight of today's edition of The Morning Swim Show. Host Peter Busch talks to Jared Lipworth about making "Doping for Gold," a documentary that chronicled how ...

We continue our focus on the uncrowned champions from the 1976 Montreal Olympics with the third day of our landmark five-day series announcing Swimming World's unprecedented move to strip the East German women of our prestigious World and European Swimmers of the Year awards. Heading into the last e...

First Published in PHOENIX, Arizona January 3. THIS is an open letter asking FINA to recognize all victims during the DDR Olympic reign. Swimming World Magazine and SwimVortex.com are asking the swimming community worldwide to join in their request by SIGNING THE OPEN LETTER ONLINE. Dear FINA Board ...

Today, on the fourth of a five-day call to the International Olympic Committee to make things right regarding the drug-fueled East Germans of the 70s and 80s, we present to you some of the strongest reactions to our landmark decision to strip the East Germans of the World and European Swimmers of th...