Mick O’Hare is moments in Moscow, but few people remember the athlete who managed more than 1500 m
“And Straub can no longer wait,” said David Colman of the BBC. “He knows that the British are over, so he should go.”
Return to Britain All eyes focused on the above-mentioned British, multiple record holder Sebastian CoE and Steve Ovet. In connection with the final lead of the men’s 1500 m men in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, all the attention was put on that duo. In most people’s minds, the only question is focused on them, where they would receive gold, and which will get silver. No one thought about Jurgen Strub.
During the previous two years, the Council of Europe and Ovet avoided each other, and attractions were firmly on their inevitable canceling in the Russian capital. Six days ago, the former races a tactical inefficient racing, and despite the favorite of that event, she ended with silver with her great competitor. Now it was the turn of the OVetty to be selected for 1500 m. He would not be beaten in three years away, but the Council of Europe was desperate to make changes.
In the field, no one fluent the blow to the devastating end of the Council of Europe and the slow race would play in his hands. And slowly, for the first two laps. At the moment, Straub knew he had only one option. And he took it.
The remaining 700 m away, the eastern German came out, raising the pace from pedestrian to painful. “The long run of the house continues,” says Coleman. Two 62.5 seconds were covered in 54 seconds the following 400 m. He gave the field because they hit 150 m away, on the shoulder of the Council of Europe, willing and in Ovet. Straub seemed to be seated by Badik and the Council of Europe in the past, using this famous destructive end.
Everyone was waiting to follow the Ovett, but Schtron retained his move and his rhythm. “Ovette gathers himself,” Coleman is called. “But Straub on the far side … Ovette has problems … And the Council of Europe gets the revenge he wants. And the second is Straub … ”
The Council of Europe passed the line’s hands stretched and fell to the floor with aid. Behind him, Straub pierced the air, noting his remarkable mileage, his greatest victory, the greatest victory of stages. But there was something exceptional about the performance, except that it caused a silver medal … The general agreement is that Straub is clean.
The same cannot be said in those games for the majority of his eastern German teams. Men’s long jump champion Luzbrovsky’s 200m Women’s Champion Bärbel Wellkkel, won Waldemar Cierpinski and women’s shot wins Ilona SLUPIANEK, all of which have been shown by participants who have ever witnessed a state-sponsored sports doping system.
It started in 1973 and ran almost until the fall of Berlin’s wall in 1989. The children were collected for their early sports exercise and almost always without parental consent. This meant that athletes could have trained more difficult, longer and recovery times have been reduced. Medals and world records rolled.
But they arrived at a tremendous price. After retirement, and often before the years of drug abuse began to show. Male hormones have given women deeper voices, and male hair exemplary growth. However, these were small considerations, early in the liver, kidney and heart disease, infertility, miscondition, birth defects, mental health problems and cancer. Staatsplanstema 14.25 killed more people than Berlin wall guards.
However, until the entire building fell when the wall fell, the socialist government of the German Germany, which was angry with sports success. Once upon a time, when the Moscow Olympic flame was extinguished, East Germany won 47 gold medals, in all the incredible – word senses, winning only 17 million people.
However, in this context, the courageous run of Jurgen Straub in Moscow should watch. He was born in 1958 in Taggy, his new-educated sports talent became clear, and 15 years old, he was offered at the Brandenburg State Youth Stadium. His strength lead him to 3,000 m Steeplechaser, winning his national championships three times, before moving to the back injury, was 500 m. But the stability built over its years will be put to obstacles, no less important officer.
His reputation increased as a strong opponent. In 1975, he posted the fifth place in the European Cup at 1,500 m, then provided a bronze in 1977 and 1979. In the world cups.
“One of my strongest memories is the 1977 World Cup,” he said. “That year, our path and field team won East Germany’s Sports Team. We still meet every year and talk about those times. “
After taking gold at the 1977 European Championship in San Sebastan, he provided in 1979 in Turin in 1979. Straub confidently entered the 1980 Olympic year, and it didn’t take it.
However once Stataplantryema 14.25 has been subjected to the validity of any medal won by the Eastern German athletes. There are comments that claim that all those who have entered the nation’s sports system. It was a commitment that you couldn’t avoid.
Naturally, Straub denies any involvement and he has a strong case. The balance of possibility greatly weighs in its favor. He did not suffer the evil consequences of drugs that almost all his teammates endured. And he was maleA number of more frequently girls and young women have been collected because steroids and hormones have had a greater impact on women’s activities.
Most importantly, Straub did not make a comprehensive list of steroid users, which was designed by a leading doping program, when he testified to the post-German reunification investigation. STATE DEPARTMENT 14.25A number of Straub was an Olympic medalist, not the indecent athlete misleaded, and Riedel said the same. Also the name of Straub does not appear in the Joseph Tudor Book Synthetic medalsDocumenting the doping program.
So it seemed that the stray Olympic silver certainly earned to apply for drugs without work. His misfortune must present East Germany in the era of deep skepticism.
“I look back to emotions,” he said. “My tactics were well thought out. Long sprint has always been my strength and in Moscow we knew that we could consider it from the podium and the fight against Steve.
“When I reached Moscow and discovered Filbert Bain (the former Tanzanyan world record holder for his front run), I was disappointed.
“But it wouldn’t work against Seb and Steve, so I decided to go outside 700 m. Watch. Who was that? I just knew someone was still standing. I was so happy with the silver and I get in the goose. “How did you do it?” My wife was a cone at the stadium, and she covered her eyes in the final arm.
“There’s something else I remember very clearly. It was so strange. Before entering the stadium, Seb was sitting on my calf before the preparation room. He was probably just trying to find out, it was loose. I caved to him. I suspect he remembers it.
“Memories remain so fresh, I had very great meetings with athletes from all over the world, but unfortunately I didn’t see Seb and Steve again again after Moscow.”
In some districts, the American boycott of the 1980s, a protest rally of the Afghanistan invasion of the Soviet Union, could be the 1500 m field, which can be the US New Zealand’s John Walker, is missing. But it was not served not to challenge the Council of Europe or Ovett, even if they split them, how it did. Even Eastern German sports journalist Hayz Floria Hollel wrote on the eve of the race. “There is only one question here.
“It’s not something I ever let him forget,” the Straub smiles.
Unfortunately, following his Moscow success, there will be no more medals. “In April 1980, I developed a pain in my economy,” he explained. “It became impossible to exercise from Pain, but I was able to compete in Moscow through physiotherapy. After that, X-rays showed to wear on my hip joints. Straub’s competitive career ended at the age of 26, and now, 70 years old live with a prosthesis hip. “Shame, but at least my last international competition was the best,” he said.
It was. The Council of Europe and Ovet had a congenital talent. Beating or the hard work required, and the impeccable tactics and Straub showed both Moscow on August 1, 1980. How British athletics Coach George Gandhi later said.
