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15 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Well, Pieleshenko was banned for doping for 8 years (until 2026) so it's not like we'd seen him in sports anymore. The ban was so long since he was banned for stanozolol for 2 years before already.

It's hugely ironic that, if he hadn't been caught doping, he probably would still have been a competitive weightlifter and not  have been fighting the Russians.

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1976 Olympic Gold in the 200m Breaststroke :GBR/:SCO David Wilkie.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3ggndekv8lo
 

Think he was the only non-:USA Male to take a Gold in Swimming at that Games.  British sport in general was really in a slump in the mid-70s, so he was a huge star.

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1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

1976 Olympic Gold in the 200m Breaststroke :GBR/:SCO David Wilkie.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3ggndekv8lo
 

Think he was the only non-:USA Male to take a Gold in Swimming at that Games.  British sport in general was really in a slump in the mid-70s, so he was a huge star.

You're right the US won 12 out of 13 golds in the men's events while East Germany won 11 out of 13 in the women's events. The Cold War in sports in action.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1976_Summer_Olympics

 

Wilkie also won silver in the 100m breaststroke following an earlier silver in Munich in 1972. If Mary Peters was GB's star in Munich then it was probably Wilkie who fulfilled that role in Montreal.

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:AUS dressage rider  Elliott Patterson has died of injuries sustained in a freak accident some weeks ago.

His horse panicked, slipped and landed on top of him causing severe head injuries

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